“What is Lamarckism And Neo-Lamarckism?”

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“What is Lamarckism And Neo-Lamarckism?”

    Scientists are not always remembered for the ideas they cherished most.

      In the case of the French biologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, his name since the end of the nineteenth century has been tightly linked to the idea of the inheritance of acquired characters.   

      This was indeed an idea that he endorsed, but he did not claim it as his own nor did he give it much thought.

      He took pride instead in advancing the ideas that

(1) nature produced successively all the different forms of life on earth, and

(2) environmentally induced behavioural changes lead the way in species change.

     Thus, it is strived in this E- Booklet to survey Lamarck’s ideas about organic change, identify several ironies with respect to how his name is commonly remembered.

   Further, it is also attempted to describe Neo-Lamarckism briefly along with relevant ILLUSTRATIONS of great personalities of 19 th and 20th Centuries to honour their work!

.…Dr. H. K. Saboowala. 

                    M.B.(Bom) .M.R.S.H.(London)