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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...
- 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)...
- 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–Caulaincourt (French pronunciation: [lamaʁk kolɛ̃kuʁ]) is a station on Line 12 of the Paris Métro in the Montmartre district and the 18th arrondis****t...
- Mount Lamarck is a 13,417-foot-elevation (4,090-meter) mountain summit located on the crest of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in northern California...
- Theistic evolution, the belief that God directly guided evolution Neo-Lamarckism, the idea that evolution was driven by the inheritance of characteristics...
- 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...
- an obsolete taxon, Vermes, used by Carolus Linnaeus and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck for all non-arthropod invertebrate animals, now seen to be paraphyletic...
- offspring would be a form of epigenetic inheritance.[citation needed] Lamarckism, as this body of thought became known, was the standard explanation for...