The self-making world

Long mocked and misunderstood, Lamarck’s radical idea that organisms shape themselves and their world is making a comeback - by Jessica Riskin Read on Aeon

拉馬克提出生物會隨生活習性自我轉化並重塑世界，這一觀點被主流演化生物學壓制了兩百多年。近幾十年表觀遺傳學、行為引導演化與生態位構建等研究，正重新回到拉馬克式的立場。