Seeing "Lamarckian" More Positively: The Use/Disuse Paradigm Increases Understanding.

Bioessays

Department of History, University of Vienna, Althanstraße 14, Ebene 3, Stiege H, 1090, Vienna, Austria.

Published: June 2019

Download full-text PDF

Source
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bies.201900054DOI Listing

Publication Analysis

Top Keywords

"lamarckian" positively
4
positively use/disuse
4
use/disuse paradigm
4
paradigm increases
4
increases understanding
4
"lamarckian"
1
use/disuse
1
paradigm
1
increases
1
understanding
1

Similar Publications

Coronavirus, an extremely contagious infections disease had a harmful effect on the world's population. It is a family of enveloped, single-stranded, positive-strand RNA viruses of Nidovirales order belongs to coroviridae family. At present, worldwide several lakhs of deaths and several billions of infections have been reported.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Bridging Tumorigenesis and Therapy Resistance With a Non-Darwinian and Non-Lamarckian Mechanism of Adaptive Evolution.

Front Oncol

September 2021

CREEC/CANECEV, MIVEGEC (CREES), Centre de Recherches Ecologiques et Evolutives sur le Cancer, University of Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, Montpellier, France.

Although neo-Darwinian (and less often Lamarckian) dynamics are regularly invoked to interpret cancer's multifarious molecular profiles, they shine little light on how tumorigenesis unfolds and often fail to fully capture the frequency and breadth of resistance mechanisms. This uncertainty frames one of the most problematic gaps between science and practice in modern times. Here, we offer a theory of adaptive cancer evolution, which builds on a molecular mechanism that lies outside neo-Darwinian and Lamarckian schemes.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Molecular docking and pharmacophoric modelling of 1,5-disubstituted tetrazoles as inhibitors of two proteins present in cancer, the ABL and the mutated T315I kinase.

In Silico Pharmacol

November 2020

Laboratorio de Diseño Molecular, Instituto de Investigaciones Químico-Biológicas, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, Ciudad Universitaria, C.P. 58033 Morelia, Michoacán Mexico.

A docking study of a set of several 1,5-disubstituted tetrazoles compounds has been performed to predict the poses of some potential inhibitors of the Abelson tyrosine-protein kinase and the mutated Abelson tyrosine-protein kinase T315I. The study was conducted through Lamarckian genetic algorithms in Autodock4 package. Bayesian calculations were performed; specificity and sensitivity values as well as positive predicted values, and negative predicted values were calculated using a set of 99 known experimentally active ligands and 385 decoys for the Abelson tyrosine-protein kinase from the Directory of Useful Decoys database.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

The Impact of Lamarck's Theory of Evolution Before Darwin's Theory.

J Hist Biol

February 2017

Centro de Ciencias Humanas y Sociales, IH, CSIC Project HAR2013-43048-P, c/Albasanz 26-28, 28037, Madrid, Spain.

This paper analyzes the impact that Lamarckian evolutionary theory had in the scientific community during the period between the advent of Zoological Philosophy and the publication Origin of Species. During these 50 years Lamarck's model was a well known theory and it was discussed by the scientific community as a hypothesis to explain the changing nature of the fossil record throughout the history of Earth. Lamarck's transmutation theory established the foundation of an evolutionary model introducing a new way to research in nature.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

Want AI Summaries of new PubMed Abstracts delivered to your In-box?

Enter search terms and have AI summaries delivered each week - change queries or unsubscribe any time!