“…Consequently, a swirling evolutionary discourse (in fact, a controversy) has developed about modern evolutionary theory and the need for new, extended or rehashed evolutionary synthesis. A key part of that discourse is how transgenerational epigenetics factors into inheritance and evolution, with emerging concepts and terms, such as âsoft inheritanceâ, âsoft genomeâ, âcell memoryâ, âepigenetic marksâ and âcultural transmissionâ being inserted into more traditional evolutionary theory, as represented by the modern synthesis [ 18 , 90 , 91 , 92 , 93 , 94 , 95 , 96 , 97 , 98 , 99 , 100 , 101 , 102 , 103 , 104 , 105 , 106 , 107 , 108 , 109 ].…”