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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.
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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 1080 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1080 total…Works Cited Avital, Eytan, Eva Jablonka, and Marion J. Lamb. 1998. `Lamarckian' mechanisms in darwinian evolution. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. May, Volume 13, Issue 5, Pages 206-210. Brodie III, Edmund D., James M. Cheverud, Allen J. Moore, Michael J. Wade, and Jason B. Wolf. 1998. Evolutionary consequences of indirect genetic effects. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. February, Volume 13, Issue 2, Pages 64-69. Darwin, Charles. 1859. On The Origin of Species. Murray, London. Price, Peter W.1996. Biological Evolution. Saunders College Publishing.

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