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Lamarckian
Lamarckian La*marck"i*an, a. Pertaining to, or involved in, the doctrines of Lamarckianism.
Lamarckianism
Lamarckianism La*marck"i*an*ism, n. (Biol.) 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.
Neo-Lamarckian
Neo-Lamarckism Ne`o-La*marck"ism, n. (Biol.) Lamarckism as revived, modified, and expounded by recent biologists, esp. as maintaining that the offspring inherits characters acquired by the parent from change of environment, use or disuse of parts, etc.; -- opposed of Neo-Darwinism (which see, above). -- Ne`o-La*marck"i*an, a. & n.
Neo-Lamarckism
Neo-Lamarckism Ne`o-La*marck"ism, n. (Biol.) Lamarckism as revived, modified, and expounded by recent biologists, esp. as maintaining that the offspring inherits characters acquired by the parent from change of environment, use or disuse of parts, etc.; -- opposed of Neo-Darwinism (which see, above). -- Ne`o-La*marck"i*an, a. & n.

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- Lamarckism, also known as Lamarckian inheritance or neo-Lamarckism, is the notion that an organism can p**** on to its offspring physical characteristics...
- Pierre Antoine de Monet, chevalier de Lamarck (1 August 1744 – 18 December 1829), often known simply as Lamarck (/ləˈmɑːrk/; French: [ʒɑ̃batist lamaʁk])...
- Lamarck–Caulaincourt (French pronunciation: [lamaʁk kolɛ̃kuʁ]) is a station on Line 12 of the Paris Métro in the Montmartre district and the 18th arrondis****t...
- 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)...
- an obsolete taxon, Vermes, used by Carolus Linnaeus and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck for all non-arthropod invertebrate animals, now seen to be paraphyletic...
- classification for animals in 1758 with his Systema Naturae, which Jean-Baptiste Lamarck expanded into 14 phyla by 1809. In 1874, Ernst Haeckel divided the animal...
- Lamarck's honey bee or the Egyptian honey bee, Apis mellifera lamarckii, is a subspecies of honey bee occurring in a narrow range along the Egyptian Nile...
- Genicanthus lamarck, the blackstriped angelfish or Lamarck's angelfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a marine angelfish belonging to the family...
- 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...
- introduction of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck's Flore françoise, and Augustin Pyramus de Candolle's Principes élémentaires de botanique. Lamarck set out a system for the...