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Definition of Lamarckian

Lamarckian
Lamarckian La*marck"i*an, a. Pertaining to, or involved in, the doctrines of Lamarckianism.

Meaning of Lamarckian from wikipedia

- Lamarckism, also known as Lamarckian inheritance or neo-Lamarckism, is the notion that an organism can p**** on to its offspring physical characteristics...
- development and regeneration. It also accounted for regeneration and the Lamarckian concept of the inheritance of acquired characteristics, as a body part...
- other influences it effectively banished certain Lamarckian concepts: in particular, it would make Lamarckian inheritance from changes to the body (the soma)...
- lifetime of an individual. This has led to calls for biology to reconsider Lamarckian processes in evolution in light of modern advances in molecular biology...
- species can become incorporated into that species' genetic code, not by a Lamarckian process that encodes specific memories, but by a much vaguer tendency...
- However, the Baldwin effect remained under-appreciated because of its Lamarckian connotation and consequently it was inferred by many that learning cannot...
- referred to in the literature as Baldwinian evolutionary algorithms (EAs), Lamarckian EAs, cultural algorithms, or genetic local search. Inspired by both Darwinian...
- corresponds to Lamarckian "inheritance of acquired traits". The hologenome theory, therefore, is said by its proponents to incorporate Lamarckian aspects within...
- on which natural selection could act. This led to Darwin adopting some Lamarckian ideas in later editions of On the Origin of Species and his later biological...
- in Latin America were largely founded on the idea of neo-Lamarckian eugenics. Neo-Lamarckian eugenics stated that the outside effects experienced by an...