Talk:Epigenesis (biology)

Made a minor tweak of the article removing a direct quote and replacing it with a paraphrase. Reads better that way, direct quote wasn't necessary. Ceramufary (talk) 20:50, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

This article needs work.

I put in the needs-work template because this article reads like a stub, but it has too much information to not be better organized. It needs, in my humble opinion:

• A better opening topic sentance
• Some sections
• Some coherency between sections which allow for the information to flow a little.
  • Not so much techno-babble, maybe some more information that laypeople can relate to?
• The references are nice, but they could be formatted better, using Wikipedia's citation templates (for books), I believe.

{{cite book | last = | first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = | publisher = | date = | location = | pages = | url = | doi = | id = | isbn = }} There you go. Have fun. Rhetth (talk) 03:36, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Incorrect Reference

Aristotle did not conceive epigenetics. It was Jean-Baptiste Lamark. Reportedly, Darwin considered his theory as a very good complement to his. Unfortunately, 20th century focused itself entirely on genome as the only source of changes in organisms. Only in the last decade or two epigenetics became hot topic in labs, with some considering even culture and environment under the umbrela.

Kind regards, Damir Ibrisimovic (talk) 01:18, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Another Incorrect Reference

Creationism is irrelevant here. Creationism proposes miraculous, non-evolutionary origins of life on Earth, not with the development of individual organisms. The bigger scientific debate from von Helmont to Pasteur concerned biogenesis versus spontaneous generation of individual organisms.