Word: lamarckism
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...departure Charles Darwin was still convinced of the immutability of species. He had read the fabulous evolutionary theories of Lamarck, based on the "longing" of species to change or improve. These he considered, as did most other repu table naturalists of the period, pure pishtosh. But eight years spent among the strange leaves and unbelievable beetles of South America, among the cannibalistic Fuegian savages (with three of whom, notably one Jemmy Button, he became intimate), among the corals of the Pacific Islands and the animals and fish that swarmed in the dark oceans, made him less certain. He foresaw that...
...even to the Greeks, in fact. All that Darwin did was to suggest a plausible explanation of how it might have occurred. Some parts of Darwin's explanation have since been called in question. The influence of natural selection, his favorite theory, is not agreed upon; his emphasis on Lamarck's doctrine of the inheritance of characters acquired by environmental factors such as use and disuse is now largely discredited; of the phenomena of variation and the mechanism of the germ-cell he knew little. But whether or not species originate as Darwin thought they did, this "grandest generalization...
...around which so much of evolutionary conflict has raged for 100 years-has received new support from the work of Professor Paul Kammerer, of the University of Vienna, who has just demonstrated his findings before the Cambridge University Society of Natural History. The theory, first developed by Jean Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829), who held that changes in the individual due to altered needs and habits are passed on to descendants (e. g., the neck of the giraffe is long because its ancestors had to stretch to reach the foliage), was taken over in part by Darwin, who believed...
...basis of a belief in evolution!-who does not believe in evolution as a proved part of scientific knowledge. "The evidence from . . . these fields (comparative anatomy, embryology, paleontology, geographical distribution) ... is over-whelming." Though a unit on the fact of evolution, scientists frankly admit their ignorance of its causes. Lamarck's, Darwin's, Mendel's theories are all only partial explanations. "If this be ammunition for the antievolutionists, let them make the most of it! We can afford to be honest...
Divisionals are Lowelling along the Homer Wace. Lamarck boards the Hollow Ships Darwin the Human Race. Swinburnes Bacons Sophocles, but Mills with Henry VII; the Roses York with Glorianna, manna falls from Heaven, Rousseauing down Endymion the Frogs are all Gladstoning Grote Joshua's Farewell Address. The Last Duchess, intoning, Lloyd John's Reform is Billing Swift, while Benton Ruskins Contract. Layamon, Macduff, the Brut! Godzooks! 'Tis well-known for a fact Hannibal Island's Robinhood is easy on the Style. Cowper all Lovelacely full went Reading to Carlyle, Chaucer Canterburies Nietzche with the milk of human wiehes; Saint-Saens...