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...most common of the 200 strains of coca is Lamarck, a shrub that grows in the eastern foothills of the Andes. It is a hardy, deep-rooted perennial that can be harvested a mere six months after planting and then as often as three times a year. It can also survive for up to 30 years, growing stronger with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Powerful Coca Leaf | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

...florid, energetic style begins turning an already complicated narrative into a three-ring extravaganza. As if the local color of Imperial Russia and a weird group of invading performers were not enough, obscure allusions begin clamoring for attention. One of the star acts in Colonel Kearney's circus is "Lamarck's Educated Apes." This Monsieur Lamarck is a wife beater and a drunk; he also bears the name of the French naturalist whose theory of evolution through the transmission of acquired learning was overturned by Darwinism. So the new Lamarck's chimps get smart enough to dump him and demand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: On the Wings of a New Age Nights At the Circus | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

...misreading of the book. A recent article on the editorial page of The Crimson compared Wilson to Herbert Spencer and attempted to find him guilty by association. This is purely a sophomoric game, just as it would be to compare a modern geneticist of Richard Lewontin's calibre to Lamarck, or to B.F. Skinner. Even during the late sixties, when the emotional energy behind university politics was far greater, it would have been rare for the Crimson to give so much space to such an ill-informed piece. But in those days the tarring and feathering of academics--some...

Author: By Martin Etter, | Title: Sociobiology: A Positive View | 2/10/1976 | See Source »

Geneticist Bentley Glass incited the fuss last winter when he suggested that human bodies began balding as soon as warm clothes ended the need for tufted torsos. Scoffing, one writer charged Glass with Lamarckianism, the discredited 1809 theory of French Naturalist Jean Baptiste Lamarck, who argued that giraffe necks grew long because the animals preferred eating treetop leaves and that such acquired characteristics could be passed on to offspring. In rebuttal, Glass argued that man's use of fire as well as clothing changed his environment enough "to make hairiness an inconsequential feature, except on the more exposed parts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anthropology: Hairy Argument | 8/19/1966 | See Source »

...locked in a set of genes that usually bred true, but once in a while spontaneously "mutated" to produce a new characteristic that thereafter bred true and thus produced evolution's changes. This knowledge undercut the Lamarckian concept-named for Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck (1744-1829)-that characteristics could be acquired in response to environment and become hereditary.* The cause of mutations remained a mystery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Heredity & Cancer | 12/1/1961 | See Source »

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