Lamarck and the nucleosome: evolution and environment across 200 years

Amongst prominent biological scientists of the past 300 years, Lamarck is one of the most widely misunderstood. His distinguished and influential contributions to the taxonomy of plants and invertebrates have been all but lost amidst the furore surrounding attempts to prove or discredit a mechanism he proposed to explain how major phenotypic differences might evolve, namely the inheritance of acquired characteristics. In the present article,...