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It seems, that historically the problem of oppose inherited features vs acquired is mainly two-causes problem. The first is an insufficient knowledge about mechanisms how acquired phenotypic feature could became inherited. The second is semiotic or more precisely semantic. Any “language itself contained the seeds of the problem” because of ambiguous interpreting of same terms by different scientists. Human specific understanding of any term, which depends on their different education, specificity of different languages, usage of metaphors and analogies, etc., create “unintended illusions” of real truth. This brief theoretical study attempts to consider adaptively significant traits as gradually moving from the category of non-heritable to heritable ones. The conceptual approach used makes it possible to erase the contradictions between the interrelated concepts of “acquired” and “inherited” features.

Translated title of the contributionOn spontaneity, variability and directed evolution. Whether it is necessary to push foreheads inherited or acquired features?
Original languageRussian
Pages (from-to)141-150
Number of pages10
JournalЭКОЛОГИЧЕСКАЯ ГЕНЕТИКА
Volume20
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 9 Sep 2022

    Research areas

  • acquired features, directed evolution, inherited features, semantics, semiotics, spontaneity, variability

    Scopus subject areas

  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all)
  • Genetics(clinical)
  • Genetics
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Biochemistry
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous)
  • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis
  • Biotechnology
  • Ecology

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