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Just FYI the biological mechanisms at play here in worms are quite different from those in mammals, so don't expect this to generalize to humans.

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"the new study provides valuable clues about the potential for short-term epigenetic inheritance to influence longer-term evolution, too."

Chemistry is different but mechanism is pretty universal, across the species.

Still, genetic regulation changes would somehow have to end up pushed into gametes in order to make it to the embryo. Or maybe there could be a placental mechanism for passing genetic regulation from the mother to the embryo. The latter would be more likely to work, so I'd bet on that if the mechanism exists at all. Either way, finding a bit of Lamarckian flavor in nature would be something else, after all these years.

A link I just found when searching news for lamarckian evolution: https://brainblogger.com/2018/01/08/lamarckian-evolution-is-...

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