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Definition of Lamarckism

Lamarckism
Lamarckism La"marck"ism, n. [From Lamarck, a distinguished French naturalist.] (Biol.) The theory that structural variations, characteristic of species and genera, are produced in animals and plants by the direct influence of physical environments, and esp., in the case of animals, by effort, or by use or disuse of certain organs.

Meaning of Lamarckism 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...
- The modern era generally remembers Lamarck for a theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics, called Lamarckism (inaccurately named after him), soft...
- ("vermin/vermes") is an obsolete taxon used by Carl Linnaeus and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck for non-arthropod invertebrate animals. In Linnaeus's Systema Naturae,...
- Lamarck Island may refer to: Lamarck Island (Antarctica) 66°40′S 140°2′E / 66.667°S 140.033°E / -66.667; 140.033 Lamarck Island, Western Australia...
- offspring would be a form of epigenetic inheritance.[citation needed] Lamarckism, as this body of thought became known, was the standard explanation for...
- Theistic evolution, the belief that God directly guided evolution Neo-Lamarckism, the idea that evolution was driven by the inheritance of characteristics...
- mid-20th century, rejecting natural selection in favour of a form of Lamarckism, as well as expanding upon the techniques of vernalization and grafting...
- Lamarck is a crater in the southwestern part of the Moon. The northern portion of the crater is overlain by the walled plain Darwin. To the southeast...
- Ehrharta erecta is a species of gr**** commonly known as panic veldtgr****. The species is native to Southern Africa and Yemen. It is a do****ented invasive...
- Genicanthus lamarck, the blackstriped angelfish or Lamarck's angelfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a marine angelfish belonging to the family...