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Lamarckism

noun
1.
A theory of organic evolution claiming that acquired characteristics are transmitted to offspring.



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Neo-Lamarckism


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... explain the laws or manner of evolution. Strictly speaking, only the theory of selection should be called Darwinism, which was established in 1859. The theory of descent, or transmutation theory, or doctrine of filiation, should properly be called Lamarckism, who for the first time worked out the theory of descent as an independent scientific theory of the first order, and as the philosophical foundation of ...
— Was Man Created? • Henry A. Mott


Words linked to "Lamarckism" :   evolutionism, Neo-Lamarckism, theory of organic evolution, theory of evolution


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