Lamarckism

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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Lamarckism; giraffe

Charles Darwin: On the Origin of Species

Weismann, August

Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard

Salvador E. Luria.

Max Delbrück, c. 1960s.

Joshua Lederberg, 1958.

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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Lamarckism; giraffe

Charles Darwin: On the Origin of Species

Weismann, August

Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard

Salvador E. Luria.

Max Delbrück, c. 1960s.

Joshua Lederberg, 1958.

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inheritance of acquired characteristics kinetogenesis neo-Lamarckism epigenetics acquired character evolution heredity Dollo’s law inclusive fitness mutation theory Mendelian inheritance runaway selection hypothesis creative evolution Darwinism good genes hypothesis germ-plasm theory missing link

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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

French biologist

Edward Drinker Cope, c. 1889

Edward Drinker Cope

American paleontologist