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Half a century before Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, the French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck outlined hi
Half a century before Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, the French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck outlined hi
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Half a century before Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, the French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck outlined his own theory of evolution. A basis of this was the idea that characteristics acquired during an individual’s lifetime can be passed on to their offspring. In its day, Lamarck’s theory was generally ignored or lampooned.
Now all that is changing. No one is arguing that Lamarck got everything right, but over the past decade it has become increasingly clear that environmental factors, such as diet or stress, can have biological consequences that are transmitted to offspring without a single change to gene sequences taking place. In fact, some biologists are already starting to consider this process as routine. However, fully accepting the idea, provocatively dubbed the "new Lamarckism", would mean a radical rewrite of modern evolutionary theory.
That’s not all. The implications for public health could also be immense. Some researchers are talking about a paradigm shift in understanding the causes of disease. For example, non-genetic inheritance might help explain the current obesity epidemic, or why there are family patterns for certain cancers and other disorders, but no discernible genetic cause.
Lamarck’s ideas about exactly how non-genetic inheritance might work were
ambiguous
at best. He wrote, for example, of the giraffe’s neck becoming elongated over generations because of the animal’s habit of stretching up to feed on leaves in high treetops. The recent research, by contrast, has a firm basis in biological mechanisms—in so-called "epigenetic" change.
Their studies strongly suggest that a pregnant woman’s diet can affect her child’s epigenetic marks. So perhaps it is not surprising that the effect of certain nutrients is being called into question. And diet is not the only environmental factor that can influence the epigenetic setting of some genes. Michael Meaney at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and colleagues have found that newborn mice neglected by their mothers are more fearful in adulthood—and that these mice show much higher than normal levels of methylation of certain genes involved in the stress response. In humans, too, there are troubling hints that damaging experiences early in life, while the brain is still developing, can affect epigenetic settings, perhaps with catastrophic consequences.
In theory, epigenetic marks are wiped clear between generations in mammals. Intriguingly, though, the abnormalities in DNA methylation in scientists’ subjects were not restricted to their frontal cortex: they were also present in their sperm.
According to the passage, which of the following is true about Lamarck’s theory?
选项
A、No one’s arguing about the validity of it.
B、It is called the new Lamarckism by some.
C、Some part of it has been proved reasonable.
D、It helps understand the causes of diseases.
答案
C
解析
属事实细节题。选项A犯了偷梁换柱的错误,是对第二段第二句前半部分核心内容的改写,故错误。选项B犯了同样偷梁换柱的错误,新拉马克理论是从拉马克理论中衍生l叶J来的,两者所指并不相同,故错误。选项D犯了移花接木的错误,是将不相关的内容拼凑而来,故错误。选项C的内容可在第二段中找到,L的理论中的内容在过去十年中被证实,故正确。
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