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Victory over our genes? Epigenetics: what it is, and what it's not

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The relatively youthful science of epigenetics is generating a lot of interest and controversy, including being touted as “perhaps the most important [discovery] in the science of heredity since the gene.” With the media reporting that epigenetics shows that “everything you’ve been told about evolution is wrong”, why not come along and judge for yourself what all the fuss is about? (http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/mar/19/evolution-darwin-natural-selection-genes-wrong)

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