In his book " Hormones and Heredity " ( 1921 ) he proposed that the mechanism for the inheritance of acquired characteristics were hormones.
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Hering took influence from the idea of inheritance of acquired characteristics and suggested that memories could be passed on through generations by germ cells.
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Inheritance of acquired characteristics was part of Haeckel's recapitulation theory of evolution, which held that the embryological development of an organism repeats its evolutionary history.
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The term is named after Trofim D . Lysenko, an agronomist who erroneously believed that acquired characteristics could be inherited, and nearly destroyed Soviet agriculture.
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The acquired characteristics that figured in Lamarck's thinking were changes that resulted from an individual's own drives and actions, not from the actions of external agents.
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There, he read heritability of acquired characteristics, he came to prefer Darwin's hypothesis of gradual variations, which were more compatible with his continuist vision of life.
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The dogma meant that the genetic message is impenetrable by information from outside the cell, thus excluding the Lamarckian thesis that acquired characteristics can be inherited.
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Smythies J, Edelstein L, Ramachandran V . ( 2014 ) Molecular mechanisms for the inheritance of acquired characteristics-exosomes, microRNA shuttling, fear and stress : Lamarck resurrected?
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Another theory that had some support at that time was the inheritance of acquired characteristics : the belief that individuals inherit traits strengthened by their parents.
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Galton explicitly rejected the idea of the inheritance of acquired characteristics ( Lamarckism ), and was an early proponent of " hard heredity " through selection alone.
