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lamarckism
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lamarckism \La"marck"ism\, n. [From Lamarck, a distinguished French naturalist.] (Biol.) The theory that structural variations, characteristic of species and genera, are produced in animals and plants by the direct influence of physical environments, and ...
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Lamarckism (or Lamarckian inheritance ) is the idea that an organism can pass on characteristics that it has acquired during its lifetime to its offspring (also known as heritability of acquired characteristics or soft inheritance ). It is named after the ...
Usage examples of lamarckism.
Darwin should either have gone farther towards Lamarckism or not so far.
I am fully aware that I shall be accused of flat Lamarckism, but a nickname is not an argument.
Similarly, genetic assimilation provides a much better explanation than Lamarckism for the phocomelic children of thalidomidemodified parents.
Winifred enjoyed defending Lamarckism, at least when it could not injure her job prospects.