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Real-Time Evolution: Descendents of Stressed-Out Roundworms Mate More thumbnail

Real-Time Evolution: Descendents of Stressed-Out Roundworms Mate More

In the early 19th century, French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck put forth an evolutionary theory that the adaptations acquired by an organism during its lifetime could be handed down to its descendants. According to Lamarck, the lanky necks characteristic of modern-day giraffes, for example, supposedly emerged as a result of their ancestors' constant stretching. Though widely…
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