Study casts new light on research of controversial scientist Paul Kammerer

Wednesday, September 2, 2009 - 19:49 in Paleontology & Archaeology

A new study into the research of the renowned Lamarckian experimentalist Paul Kammerer may help to end the controversy which has engulfed his research for almost a century. The study, published in The Journal of Experimental Zoology, suggests that far from being a fraud Kammerer may have discovered the field of epigenetics, placing him decades ahead of his contemporaries.

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