The experiment which disproves Larmark: Start breeding mice and cut off all their tails. You'd expect to, in short order, be raising new generations of mice which lack tails. Doesn't happen.
But it could, which might be the Baldwin effect which I don't understand yet.
If some mice suffered infections and died when their tails were cut off but once in awhile a mouse was born tailess and this allowed it to escape the experimenters knife then what might occur?
In other words, if some cultural thing evolved (cleaning rice in the sea) and this conferred a benefit then some mutation which encouraged or supported this behaviour now has an environment in which it may be selected for. The end result would be a cultural change ending up in the genes but through normal darwinian evolution.
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