Cut off their tails | New Scientist
Lamarck's Signature by Edward Steele, Robyn Lindley and Robert Blanden, Allen & Unwin, £7.99, ISBN 1864487968 BEFORE we knew about Mendelian inheritance of genes, let alone DNA, there was a debate about how we come to look like our parents. Jean Baptiste de Lamarck had a bright idea: he suggested that we inherited the characteristics …| New Scientist
