Epigenetic Change: Lamarck, Wake Up, You're Wanted in the Conference Room!

If we wish to hear what the fossils are telling us, we must find out how they came to be what they were (and how their descendants came to be what they are today). For generations, scientists have looked to Darwinian evolution (natural selection acting on random mutations) almost exclusively to account for all that. Questions were considered settled if a Darwinian account could be provided.

That was not because any law of nature shows that Darwinism must be the correct explanation. Rather be...