Marcus Pembrey
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This article is about the living geneticist, not physiologist Marcus Seymour Pembrey
Marcus Pembrey is a clinical geneticist at the Institute of Child Health in London with a particular interest in epigenetics
and the possible inheritance of acquired characteristics. He calls himself, controversially, a 'Neo-Lamarckian
' and featured in a 2005 'Horizon' program on BBC
television called 'the Ghost in Your Genes'http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/ghostgenes.shtml.
Marcus Seymour Pembrey
This article is about the 19th century physiologist, not Marcus Pembrey, Geneticist.Marcus Seymour Pembrey FRS, was a British physiologist who held important posts in several British hospitals and other organisations. He was also the author of several well known medical books...
Marcus Pembrey is a clinical geneticist at the Institute of Child Health in London with a particular interest in epigenetics
Epigenetics
In biology, and specifically genetics, epigenetics is the study of heritable changes in gene expression or cellular phenotype caused by mechanisms other than changes in the underlying DNA sequence – hence the name epi- -genetics...
and the possible inheritance of acquired characteristics. He calls himself, controversially, a 'Neo-Lamarckian
Lamarckism
Lamarckism is the idea that an organism can pass on characteristics that it acquired during its lifetime to its offspring . It is named after the French biologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck , who incorporated the action of soft inheritance into his evolutionary theories...
' and featured in a 2005 'Horizon' program on BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
television called 'the Ghost in Your Genes'http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/tvradio/programmes/horizon/ghostgenes.shtml.