You might recall from high school biology a scientist by the name of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck. He proposed a mechanism of evolution in which organisms pass on traits acquired during their lifetimes to ...

Although the name "Lamarck" is now associated with a discredited view of evolution, the French biologist's notion that organisms inherit the traits acquired during their parents' lifetime had common ...

THE appearance of a new work on the causes of evolution, by an American biologist, raised the hope that more solid arguments would be forthcoming in favour of the conclusions accepted by so many ...