Precedence of Phenotype or Genotype in the evolution of 'novel' traits.

At the end of Harrison’s talk he fielded a question (that apparently Harrison and Provine had discussed might be asked while they walked over to the Art’s quad immediately before the talk)on this topic.Someone was linking Lamarck (as against what Harrison had lectured as the core principles of Darwinism (not really any different than Gould has in his last large book on the Structure of Evolutionary Theory)) and epigenetics, with the question as to if there was really anything in that field of worthwhile size to consider. Harrison begged off, admitting that there might be something with DNA methylation. He did not however actually suggest how this was to be thought in the whole organism terms he had been presenting.I recall that we had started to talk about this before on EVC at
EvC Forum: Non-mendelian genetics/ non-darwinian evolution
but we also have more recently the thread
EvC Forum: Paper Discussion: Epigenesis and Complexity: The Coming Revolution in BiologyI have not had the time, again, to work out my own full thoughts on this specific topic as I present in these notes below but above I make a statement about "seperate creation" which must apply directly to the question you pose here. I will try to give it more thought.