Lamarck, Evolution, and the Inheritance of Acquired Characters
Abstract
Scientists are not always remembered for the ideas they cherished most. In the case of the French biologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, his name since the end of the nineteenth century has been tightly linked to the idea of the inheritance of acquired characters. This was indeed an idea that he endorsed, but he did not claim it as his own nor did he give it much thought. He took pride instead in advancing the ideas that (1) nature produced...
Paper Details
Title
Lamarck, Evolution, and the Inheritance of Acquired Characters
Published Date
Aug 1, 2013
Journal
Volume
194
Issue
4
Pages
793 - 805
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