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Is Lamarckian evolution relevant to medicine?

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BACKGROUND: 200 years have now passed since Darwin was born and scientists around the world are celebrating this important anniversary of the birth of an evolutionary visionary. However, the theories of his colleague Lamarck are treated with considerably less acclaim. These theories centre on the tendency for complexity to increase in organisms over time and the direct transmission of phenotypic traits from parents to offspring. DISCUSSION: Lamarckian concepts, long thought of no relevance t...

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10.1186/1471-2350-11-73

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University of Oxford
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MSD
Department:
Physiology Anatomy & Genetics
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Institution:
University of Oxford
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MSD
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Physiology Anatomy & Genetics
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Ramagopalan, S
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BioMed Central Publisher's website
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BMC Medical Genetics Journal website
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11
Issue:
1
Article number:
73
Publication date:
2010-01-01
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1471-2350
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1471-2350
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English
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299006
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2013-11-16

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