Hereditary retained variation

Current approved assessment

Evidence position

ESTABLISHED / STRONGLY EVIDENCED

Review depth

BASELINE SURVEY

Evidence movement

Initial observation — no prior comparable baseline linked

Evidence-bearing shared heredity slice: strong occurrence evidence, low programme distinctiveness.

Why it sits here

The core belongs to established heredity and experimental evolution. Serially transmissible pneumococcal transformation and archived-lineage bacterial evolution address transmission and later consequences directly [S60,S61]. These are distinct experimental families, although both involve bacteria. Non-genetic inheritance requires additional channel-specific controls [S62].

Principal uncertainty

Empirical discrimination is high for demonstrated retained transmission versus its absence, not for a unique programme mechanism [S60,S61]. Retained history here means lineage-dependent differences with later consequences; it does not by itself imply an explicit record, semantic memory or cognition. Duration and fidelity are system-specific, and this pass did not audit full experimental methods.

What would change the view?

Consider focused review only after a particular channel and comparator are proposed, especially if a non-genetic human transmission claim is introduced.

Launch-v1 depth

Baseline-only public wrapper. No deeper evidence artefacts are fabricated.

Approved history