Book Summary:
This explosive book challenges the very foundations of accepted thinking on the genetic mechanism of evolution. "[This book] will represent, indeed, one of the landmarks in the history of biology. I have no idea what the outcome will be but I hope Steele is right."-Sir Peter Medawar What if Lamarck, whose theory of the inheritance of acquired characteristics was blown apart by Charles Darwin over a century ago, was partly right after all? In this daring book, Steele and company reveal their ground-breaking research that has uncovered strong molecular genetic evidence that aspects of acquired immunities developed by parents in their own lifetime can be passed on to their offspring. The book gives new life and scientific credibility to the Lamarckian heresy-the notion of the inheritance of acquired characteristics. |