While I enjoy calling epigenetics "Lamarck's Revenge", it's not correct, and I'm well aware of that (I'd even call it part of the joke, at least for myself). Lamarck was wrong about the dominant way in which traits are passed down, full stop, and no future discoveries are going to change that. Epigenetics is more limited, more nuanced, and also, to some extent, now inevitable that it's doing something.
Remember, the genetics you learned in school were just scratching the surface of what was known even then, and the science has been progressing by leaps and bounds since then. Everywhere they look there's another complicated mechanism doing complicated things for complicated reasons. It's terrible and awesome, in the original meanings of those terms.
Remember, the genetics you learned in school were just scratching the surface of what was known even then, and the science has been progressing by leaps and bounds since then. Everywhere they look there's another complicated mechanism doing complicated things for complicated reasons. It's terrible and awesome, in the original meanings of those terms.