Lamarck is usually remembered for his belief in the inheritance of acquired characteristics, and the " use and disuse " model by which organisms developed their characteristics.
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Earlier it motivated the Soviet doctrine called Lysenkoism, after the Ukrainian botanist who claimed that acquired characteristics ( acquired, say, under Socialism ) could be inherited after all.
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So it is with Bryant, who seemingly has all of Jordan's characteristics plus an acquired characteristic that he picked up to survive in the environment unique to the Lakers.
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During his summer holiday Charles read " Zo�nomia " by his grandfather Erasmus Darwin, which his father valued for medical guidance but which also proposed evolution by acquired characteristics.
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The evolution of acquired characteristics has also been shown in human populations who have experienced starvation, resulting in altered gene function in both the starved population and their offspring.
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It was this secondary mechanism of adaptation through the inheritance of acquired characteristics that became closely associated with his name and would influence discussions of evolution into the 20th century.
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In the late 19th century the term neo-Lamarckism came to be associated with the position of naturalists who viewed the inheritance of acquired characteristics as the most important evolutionary mechanism.
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In the late 19th century, the term neo-Lamarckism came to be associated with the position of naturalists who viewed the inheritance of acquired characteristics as the most important evolutionary mechanism.
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The giraffe, for example, stretched its neck to reach taller trees and passed this acquired characteristic to its offspring in a developmental phase that is added to gestation in the womb.
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Packard argued that the loss of vision in the blind cave insects he studied was best explained through a Lamarckian process of atrophy through disuse combined with inheritance of acquired characteristics.
