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Exploring a Change in Views on the Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics.
Title: Exploring a Change in Views on the Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics.
Category: Society & Culture / Environment
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Exploring a Change in Views on the Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics.
Exploring a Change in Views on the Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics Can a giraffe make its neck longer by stretching to reach higher branches? Most people today would laugh and say "of course not", but there was a time when scientists thought it was possible for an animal to acquire such complex characteristics. The idea of the inheritance of acquired characteristics, introduced by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, is an evolutionary process that involves organisms changing their phenotypic …showed first 75 words of 1132 total…
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