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> Many evolutionary biologists also prefer not to call this Lamarckism

Maybe that's why I got downvoted for - as it turns out - writing the exact thing the scientist said.

It was just something that popped into my head.



Yeah, don’t understand the downvotes. It’s an interesting question, and the whole subject of Lamarckism is far from trivially obsolete. Richard Dawkins’ The Blind Watchmaker contains a coherent and convincing argument why Lamarckism is actually wrong as an evolutionary explanation (in a nutshell, Lamarckism fundamentally cannot explain increase in complexity, as Darwinian evolution can, and it additionally doesn’t explain how adaptations of complex traits could possibly be acquired from scratch) – and this is a fundamental, epistemological objection which no amount of evidence could overturn. But few people refer to this reasoning when claiming that Lamarckism is “wrong”.




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