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Yes, that was why Lamarck was discredited
On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, Robin Faichney wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 08:30:47PM +0530, Dr Able Lawrence wrote:
> >
> > Generally we take the presence and absence of intention as the
> > touchstone to distinguish between Lamarckian and Darwinian evolution (I
> > have intentionally used Lamarckian evolution although we usually use it
> > only with Darwinian evolution)
>
> Speak for yourself. Intention was important to Lamarck, but modern
> usage requires only "inheritance of acquired characteristics".
>
> --
> Robin Faichney
> robin@reborntechnology.co.uk
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