lamarckian in a sentence

1. the mechanism of Lamarckian evolution

2. McDougall attributed this to some sort of Lamarckian evolutionary process.

3. 4), continued to accept Lamarckianism long after it became completely discredited.

4. As Yerushalmi (1991, 30) notes, his psycho-Lamarckianism was "neither casual nor circumstantial."

5. Jean Molino (2000) has proposed that Lamarckian evolution may be accurately applied to cultural evolution.

6. Many of them used Lamarckian arguments to criticize the undemocratic English state and the Anglican Church.

7. The evolutionist explanation of this is no different from the fantastical Lamarckian-type scenarios we have seen above.

8. (The black spots on frogs, which were supposed to prove the theory of Lamarckianism, were in fact the result of injections of ink.)

9. For example, the memetic theory of cultural evolution is sometimes described as a form of "Lamarckian" inheritance of non-genetic traits.

10. As indicated in Chapter 2 (see note 1), Jewish intellectuals were strongly attracted to Lamarckianism because of its political usefulness.

11. In other words, the Lamarckian theory can explain adaptive improvement in evolution only by, as it were, riding on the back of the Darwinian theory.

12. Lenz states that many of his Jewish acquaintances accept Lamarckianism because they wish to believe that they could become “transformed into genuine Teutons.”

13. Kammerer had already experimented with sea squirts, salamanders and other animals and believed that these experiments provided evidence of Lamarckian inheritance.

14. This could be why we now find in biology the distinction into genotype and phenotype, and why ‘Lamarckian’ inheritance does not occur in sexually reproducing species.

15. Lysenkoism is a politically inspired Lamarckianism useful to communism because of the implication that people could be biologically changed by changing the environment.

16. In our view what is specific to Darwinism, from which of course the Lamarckian formulations must be excluded, is a piece of brutality directed against humanity." {117}.

17. Indeed, Lenz notes that the Lamarckian Paul Kammerer, who was a Jew, committed suicide when exposed as a scientific fraud in an article in the prestigious British journal Nature.

18. Prior to its publication, and in direct competition, Jean-Bapiste Lamarck was promulgating a well-known incorrect variant of evolutionary theory: Lamarckism or Lamarckian evolution.

19. My claim at the outset of this chapter was stronger: that, even if acquired characteristics could be inherited, the Lamarckian theory would still be incapable of explaining adaptive evolution.

20. The findings provide support for a 200-year-old theory of evolution that has been largely dismissed: Lamarckian evolution, which states that acquired characteristics can be passed on to offspring."