Inheritance of acquired traits via epigenetics is a real phenomenon that should not be dismissed as pseudoscience.

“In the worm, we now have very obvious and clear cut proof that there is inheritance of acquired traits. So much so that I don't think that anyone pretty much in the epigenetic field argues against it.”

The prevailing scientific view is that environmental experiences cannot be encoded into the germline DNA for inheritance by offspring.

“Most people generally understand and accept that if they spend part of their life, let's say, studying architecture, that if they have children, that there's no real genetic reason we should assume that their children would somehow be better at architecture because they contain the knowledge through”