Genetic assimilation is a concept that has been well confirmed and is not really controversial among biologists: https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.12348 https://doi.

Genetic assimilation is a concept that has been well confirmed and is not really controversial among biologists: https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.12348 https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.12348 If you're concerned about a mechanism, then here are more details which were too complex to put in the video, but in retrospect with many people dubious, I should have indeed provided a more in depth explanation: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12551-018-0403-x https://doi.org/10.1007/s12551-018-0403-x I got my biology education at the University of Melbourne if that's an unimaginably bad institution to you. Many many biologists and philosophers are very interested in biological agency as a phenomena, discussed in this review here: https://www.templeton.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Biological-Agency_1_FINAL.pdf https://www.templeton.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Biologi... For names, google Evan Thompson, Philip Ball, Kevin Mitchell, Lynn Chiu, Stuart Kauffman. Are they all idiots too?