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Mind Map by Joshua Newell, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Joshua Newell
over 9 years ago
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Lamarck's Theory
- About Him?
- He was a French Biologist
- He worked before Darwin
- Born in 1744
- Fought in the Pomeranian war
- After war he
became interested
in natural history
- He was a French Biologist
- Ideas
- He had 2 ideas
- A characteristic which is used
more and more by an organism
becomes bigger and stronger, and
one that is not used eventually
disappears
- Any feature of an organism that is
improved through use is passed to its
offspring.
- A characteristic which is used
more and more by an organism
becomes bigger and stronger, and
one that is not used eventually
disappears
- He had 2 ideas
- Influences
- The ideas put forward by
Lamarck are not accepted
today
- It cannot be accepted
because it does not take
into consideration the
inheritance by genes
- However Darwin's theory can account for
the continued presence of simple
organisms.
- The ideas put forward by
Lamarck are not accepted
today
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