Re-examination suggests Paul Kammerer's scientific 'fraud' was a genuine discovery of epigenetic inheritance
Monday, October 31, 2016 - 08:01
in Psychology & Sociology
Paul Kammerer committed suicide in 1926 after being accused of fraud in his famous experiments of "inheritance of acquired traits" with the midwife toad. A new study shows how recent advances in molecular epigenetics and re-examination of his descriptions suggest the experiments were actually authentic.