The Soviet Union was the center of a shifting debate as to whether acquired characteristics could be inherited.
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Taking influence from Darwin, Romanes was a proponent of both natural selection and the inheritance of acquired characteristics.
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But Darwin now wanted to include in his scheme the possibility of the inheritance of some limited acquired characteristics.
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Though this process appears similar to Lamarckian evolution, Lamarck proposed that living things " inherited " their parents'acquired characteristics.
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Weismann and Wallace rejected the Lamarckian idea of inheritance of acquired characteristics, something that Darwin had not ruled out.
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Critics of neo-Lamarckism pointed out that no one had ever produced solid evidence for the inheritance of acquired characteristics.
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Charles Darwin of course considered heredity of acquired characteristics to be valid and incorporated it into his theory of pangenesis.
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Rignano's views on acquired characteristics and organic memory are discussed in detail by historian Laura Otis and psychologist Daniel Schacter.
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Waddington proposed an evolutionary process, " genetic assimilation ", as a Darwinian mechanism that allows certain acquired characteristic to become heritable.
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Darwin became a keen student of Robert Edmond Grant, a evolutionist ideas of �tienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire on evolution by acquired characteristics.
