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From: dlm@cuuxb.ATT.COM (Dennis L. Mumaugh)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Lamarckian Genetics
Message-ID: <2170@cuuxb.ATT.COM>
Date: 5 Nov 88 00:27:35 GMT
References: <5346@saturn.ucsc.edu>
Reply-To: dlm@cuuxb.UUCP (Dennis L. Mumaugh)
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In article <5346@saturn.ucsc.edu> vespa@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Adam Alexander Margulies) writes:
>
>	Lamarckian genetics: The unique belief that if cut off the tails of
>		enough rats, you will produce new rats born without tails.
>
>

This experiment was done is the USSR  during  the  1920-30's.  Of
course  any  thoughtful  person  would consider that the Jews and
later the Moslems have been doing a similar experiment  for  some
time  [in  the case of the Jews ~3500 years or 100 generations or
more] and have not shown any results.

[ This is a tongue in cheek comment  about  the  thought  process
involved in the theory.  Nothing serious intended. ]

-- 
=Dennis L. Mumaugh
 Lisle, IL       ...!{att,lll-crg}!cuuxb!dlm  OR cuuxb!dlm@arpa.att.com