Monday, June 7, 2010
petit poisson, petit poisson, vole vole voooollle.
If I were a fish that disobeyed some of the more recent evolutionary ideologies, and instead chose to abide by the evolutionary doctrine of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (which claims that it is possible for an organism to acquire an advantageous physical trait [in this case, wings] within the span of a single lifetime and pass that characteristic onto its offspring), then I would have many places to go and many things to do, such as the deliberate construction of stupid run-on sentences chock full of unnecessary information on the dos and don'ts of evolutionary premise and propriety.
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=) ACTUALLY, new studies in epigenetics are proving Lamarck's theories (I say Lamarck's, but really it was a whole bunch of other people and Lamarck just got stuck with the bad name in the bio textbook) to be correct. (Sort of). It all has to do with certain genes emerging (jumping genes!) and 'retracting' when in need or when in excess. This is why sometimes only one identical twin can develop cancer, etc.
But that's still suggesting that there is a semi-recent history of wingèd fish in the family from whence these genes came, does it not? Or am I misunderstanding? :S
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