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Lamarck

noun
1.
French naturalist who proposed that evolution resulted from the inheritance of acquired characteristics (1744-1829).  Synonyms: Chevalier de Lamarck, Jean Baptiste de Lamarck.



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... disappear, while the fifth toe is enormously strengthened. In the facts themselves there is nothing whatever to decide whether this evolution took place on the lines suggested by Weismann, or on the lines suggested by Lamarck and accepted by Darwin. It will be enough for us merely to establish the fact that the one-toed horse is an evolved descendant of a primitive five-toed mammal, through the adaptation of its foot to running on firm ...
— The Story of Evolution • Joseph McCabe



Words linked to "Lamarck" :   natural scientist, Jean Baptiste de Lamarck, naturalist



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