Your callouses are not passed on to your progeny.SpheresOfBalance wrote:You see I don't do things that way, I don't learn of something and then either believe in it 100% or pitch it, I see that from 0 to 100% of it can be either correct or incorrect, and that some of it may require revision as it's partially correct. Anyway I'd never heard of the term Lamarckism before, thanks for the tip, but I see that the Baldwin Effect also shows promise, because we are talking about single celled organisms.John wrote:They would do so because they had similar traits (and cultural imperatives) to you that encourage them to punch a Makiwara every day but they get no credit from your callouses. And their children would have no tougher knuckles than anyone else unless someone with an extra skin layer on their fist somehow managed to gain some reproductive advantage and such a trait was hereditary.SpheresOfBalance wrote:If I punch a Makiwara multiple times everyday, does my body not create callous to protect my knuckles? The localized cells sense damage and they add additional cells so as to protect. I say that if I did this, everyday of my life having progeny late in life, and they do the same, etc, etc, etc, etc, eventually they could stop, as I see that eventually a progeny would be born with additional skin cells on it's knuckles.
You're not seriously advocating Lamarckism are you?
You also have to realize that I really don't believe that in our time of modern science we have seen the required amount of time which would allow for such things as I reference to be tested, as I see it taking tens of thousands of years. Of course mine is just theory, but it is somewhat informed. One of my sources is the book titled "The Biology of Belief" by Bruce H. Lipton Ph.D. I see that they could get credit for my callouses, after a prolonged period of time, under the circumstances I've outlined.
Actually we're not talking about callouses anyway, that was just a hypothetical so as to convey an idea, we are talking about sexual as opposed to asexual reproduction, which was initiated a million years ago. As I read the wikipedia articles, that I quoted above, I sense that sexual reproduction was created and is maintained purposefully, by the organism, that's how it reads to me, which fits right along with other indicators, including the book that I referenced.
A dog in cold weather will grow extra thick fur. They will not pass this fur on to their progeny.
If you work out everyday and double your body muscle you will not pass this on to your progeny.
The potential to vary the body has been gained through your genes and you will pass on the same potential, but what you do in your life will not have any effect on evolution.
If you do not understand this, then you do not understand the way evolution works.
Yours is a common and tragic misconception.
If you think I am wrong then please demonstrate the mechanism by which you think those changes take place.
In other words how can working out change your genome?
