Footnotes
- (1)
- There isn't even any good theoretical reason why
an animal couldn't pass on to its children some non-genetic trait
bestowed upon it by an accident of development within its mother.
We don't know that this could happen, and the possibility has an
alarmingly Lamarckian sound, but we also don't know that it
couldn't.
- (2)
- The ongoing arguments about when, if ever,
is the appropriate moment to deny a woman an abortion don't
illuminate much, but they do illustrate this point. The reason no
one can agree on a single point is that all such choices are
arbitrary. The process is continuous; there are no clear intervals.
To put it crudely, one point on the continuum is as scientifically
defensible as any other.
