Lamarckian

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• The debate over whether environmental factors contribute to Lamarckian traits continues to spark interest among evolutionary researchers.

• A scientist who believes in Lamarckian inheritance argues that traits gained during an organism's life can be passed down to its offspring.

• And if so, does the environment work its influence directly by Lamarckian inheritance of characters acquired during life?

  Academic text (1991)

• But now he gave greater weight to the Lamarckian theory of adaptation to explain survival and social progress.

  Academic text (2002)

• At first, he explored a Lamarckian question about the relationship of heredity to the environment.

  Academic text (2005)

• Thus, he attempted to refute a "Lamarckian" theory of natural change by use and disuse, with inheritance of acquired characters.

  Academic text (1990)

• To the extent that Lamarckian inheritance is invalid, the claim for an enduring biological basis for adaptations of this kind collapses.

  Academic text (2014)

• Against these two different versions of adaptation—Lamarckian and Darwinian—other evolutionists asserted that form would not match environment in any clear way.

  Academic text (1991)

• Stepan advances a persuasive argument in explaining why Latin American eugenists adopted Lamarckian and neo-Lamarckian theoretical frameworks.

  Academic text (1997)

• The concept of hereditary taintedness antedated the rediscovery of Mendelian genetics and was compatible with Lamarckian theory of the inheritance of acquired traits.

  Academic text (2003)

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