Spencer, whose faith was placed in progress and
Lamarckism, was influential at the time Darwin wrote.
Keywords: George Bernard Shaw, Evolution, Darwinism,
Lamarckism(2) That's
Lamarckism, but a much more sophisticated version than the original.
Lamarckism thus fell into general disrespect as far as plants and animals are concerned.
A: In the mind of Karl Marx, Darwinism helped to justify the use of violence, but the Soviet Union preferred a different theory of evolution,
Lamarckism. The Nazis drew heavily on Darwinism.
This is a whole new way of looking at genetics and has been dubbed the "new
Lamarckism".
Eyebrows may understandably have been raised by Koestler's effort to revive
Lamarckism, but not by his informed questioning of Darwinism or his reflections on the relationship between science and religion.
Wilson deploys Freud's classic study of frog reflexes to critically trouble the contemporary dismissal of
Lamarckism. In a fascinating account of Charles Darwin's early endorsement of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck's theory of inheritance, Wilson draws attention to the contradiction between the rejection of nongenetically inherited characteristics and the acceptance of inherited characteristics within the psychological realm.
In a way, this opens the door to
Lamarckism, the transmission and inheritance of environmentally caused characteristics--heretofore discounted in evolutionary biology.
Whatever, then, may be said of
Lamarckism, Darwinism and other theories of Evolution, the fact of Evolution, as the matter now stands, is scarcely any longer a matter for controversy.
The nonrandomness of McClintock's theory of transposition was particularly problematic because it seemed to lend support to
Lamarckism, which had little scientific respect.
The whole thing smacked of
Lamarckism, the long-rejected idea that environmental influences can change an animal or plant's structure and offspring can inherit that change.