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Lamarckian is an adjective that pertains to the theories of evolution proposed by French biologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck. It is used in scientific contexts to describe the idea of acquired characteristics being passed down to offspring
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  • A supporter or an advocate of Lamarckism.
  • Of or pertaining to Lamarckism.

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Lamarckian evolution is rapid and accumulative.
The classic example of Lamarckian evolution is giraffes.
He was a proponent of transmutation of species and supporter of Lamarckian evolution.
That implies the Lamarckian inheritance of acquired characteristics.
Ho has advocated a form of Lamarckian evolution.
He also supported the Lamarckian idea of transmission of acquired characteristics.
The outcome is akin to a Lamarckian process.
The Lamarckian mechanism of evolution can not therefore be accepted.
Haldeman was a proponent of Lamarckian evolution and transmutation of species.
This passing on of sins through generations is guided by Lamarckian evolution.
The most famous Lamarckian example is that of the giraffes.
Someone should point out to her that her explanation is Lamarckian.
It is a major tragedy that the Lamarckian controversy has.
Let us fix the Lamarckian evolutionary process well in our minds.
Some have suggested that in certain cases a form of Lamarckian evolution may occur.

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He proposed a Lamarckian mutationist synthesis.
The inheritance of acquired traits also formed a part of early Lamarckian ideas on evolution.
Cannon's Lamarckian views were heavily criticized by biologist Theodosius Dobzhansky.
This distanced his theory from Lamarckian laws of inevitable progress.
Baldwin proposed that individual learning can explain evolutionary phenomena that appear to support Lamarckian inheritance.
He also believed in Lamarckian heritability.
Social Statics based ideas of human freedom and individual liberties on his Lamarckian.
Hartog was a Lamarckian.
Since the species considered most important were, amphistegina lessoni and quinqueloculina lamarckian.
He had believed thoroughly in Lamarckian Evolution.
You mean lamarckian evolution? No, the Adam and Eve one.
But race is neither biology nor an idea absorbed into biology by Lamarckian inheritance.
Many early plant ecologists had a Lamarckian view of inheritance, as did Darwin, at times.
In fact, the flavor of the entire article is Lamarckian.
It is not Lamarckian.
Thus, it was naturally tempting for some critics to simply dismiss Vestiges as Lamarckian.
Of course, imply any sort of Lamarckian inheritance.
Moreover, as Dreyer and others have pointed out, Charles Darwin himself was a Lamarckian.
Hardy identified as a Darwinian, he denied the Lamarckian inheritance of acquired characteristics.
It 's in every textbook that explains the difference between Darwinian and Lamarckian evolution.
The pseudo-scientific ideas of Lysenkoism built on Lamarckian concepts of the heritability of acquired characteristics.
Also, unlike genetic evolution, memetic evolution can show both Darwinian and Lamarckian traits.
Accordingly, Virchow favored Lamarckian models of evolution.
This is a use which Freud makes of Lamarckian theory.
You mean lamarckian evolution?
However it occurs, the initial introduction of a transgene is a Lamarckian ( non-Mendelian ) event.
At this point, Darwin embraced the Lamarckian theory, that is, “ the inheritance of acquired traits . ”.
It has been described as Darwinian rather than Lamarckian conceptual evolution.
And the " great leap forward " - the rapid Lamarckian transmission of " accidental " one-of-a kind inventions.
Whilst there, however, he was influenced by the Lamarckian Robert Edmund Grant.
Here again, there is a wide gap between the Lamarckian and Darwinian visions.
Only the sports could restrain the evolution, in the Lamarckian sense, foreseen by the author.

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