Lamark and AAA

It's AAA today ;)

He was taking developmental biology. Nothing new, same old Triple A style. Suddenly I was stunned hearing some of his words!!! Was I hearing right? He said, memory is an important attribute in higher organism's cell... kind of Ok so far. Afterwards, as an example he said, experience from parents are passed to their offspring through cells. Gosh! Am I in 21st century? How can someone advocate Lamarkism which died in 19th century Darwinian Era? I should have argued with Akandh Sir. It's the old habit. I know there is no point. Critical thinking isn't appreciated in this failed educational system. Hail Memory! That's the only slogan here.

Another analogy which he wanted to draw appeared bit absurd to me. He said a shoe and an aeroplane manufacturing factory doesn't use the same material and technology. Likewise biologists expected distinct variation when they studied development of different multicellular organisms... but they were surprised to see the extent of similarity. Well, shoe and aeroplane are completely different things, their difference isn't even analogous to the difference between prokaryotes and eukaryotes. If he compared the production strategy of car and aeroplane, I think he would have found lots of similarities. The apparent similarity is at the same time a fascinating and a frustrating thing. Fascinating because it shows us the fundamental similarity, while it's frustrating because it testifies the fact that there are lots of to be discovered stuffs.