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Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics#Transgenerational https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics#Transgeneratio

• jackcosgrove 10y ago
  Epigenetics may influence gene expression, but as your link says others are skeptical that it constitutes an independent information vector. Epigenetic activities may themselves be encoded in genes. Epigenetics as a concept can also be abused into a sort of neo-Lamarckism.
  • fifnir 10y ago
    >Epigenetic activities may themselves be encoded in genes. But good luck growing a healthy organism without its epigenetic landscape properly initialized
    • im3w1l 10y ago
      Has it been verified experimentally that it's not possible?