Weismann Rules! OK? Epigenetics and the Lamarckian temptation

By D. Haig. 2007

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Can Darwinism be “Generalized” and of what use would this be? (2011, background): “There is still a principle difference, though, between neo-Lamarckian soft inheritance and epigenetics so that the selectionist foundations of the theory are not compromised, see Haig (2007) and Gilbert (Gilbert & Epel 2009, p. 449).”
More on how and why: cause and effect in biology revisited (2013, background): “In the Modern Synthesis, the ‘origin question’ was reduced to mutations with small and random effects on the phenotype, and substantial resistance remains to ascribing to development an important role in evolution (e.g. de Jong and Crozier 2003; de Jong 2005; Haig 2007).”
piRNAs Can Trigger a Multigenerational Epigenetic Memory in the Germline of C. elegans (2012, background): “Since August Weismann (1834–1914) formulated the distinction between innate and acquired characteristics at the end of the 19th century, the debate relating to the inheritance of acquired traits has raised many controversies in the scientiﬁc community (Weismann, 1891; Bateson, 1919; Haig, 2006).”