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to pred i cate his the o ry on a range of for Darwin's the o ry, which he had
com plete ly er ro ne ous as sump tions. based on Lamarck's "ben e fi cial
He point ed to nat u ral se lec tion as traits."
the ba sis of the ev o lu tion a ry mech a - For that rea son, sci en tif ic ad her -
nism. Yet if ben e fi cial at trib utes ents of Darwinism in the first quar -
were cho sen by means of nat u ral se - ter of the 20th cen tu ry sought to de -
lec tion (the sur viv al of the fit test"), vel op a new mod el of ev o lu tion.
how could they be trans mit ted from Thus neo-Darwinism was born. (See
one gen er a tion to an oth er? At this The Neo-Darwinism Comedy.)
point, Darwin em braced the the sis,
which Lamarck had pro posed, of
"the trans mis sion of ac quired char - LE CHATELIER'S PRINCIPLE
ac ter is tics." As ami no ac ids chem i cal ly com -
However, Lamarck's the sis was bine to form a pro tein, they build
re fut ed when the laws of in her it ance what is known as the pep tide bond. In
dis cov ered by the Austrian bot a nist build ing this bond, a wa ter mol e cule
and al so a priest Gregor Mendel. is re leased. This to tal ly in val i dates
This meant that ben e fi cial traits the ev o lu tion ist ac count of prim i tive
could not be passed along. Genetic life emerg ing in the sea. According
laws dem on strat ed that ac quired to the law known as Le Chatelier's
fea tures were not hand ed on, and Principle, it is im pos si ble for a so-
that in her it ance took place ac cord ing called con den sa tion re ac tion—a re -
to im mu ta ble rules—which by im - ac tion that gives off wa ter—to take
pli ca tion sup port ed the idea of the place in an en vi ron ment that con -
im mu ta bil i ty of spe cies. tains wa ter. The prob a bil i ty of a
The laws of in her it ance, de ter - chem i cal re ac tion tak ing place in a
mined by Gregor Mendel aft er wa tery en vi ron ment is de scribed as
lengthy ex per i ments and ob ser va - the low est pos si ble.
tions, were pub lished in 1865. Therefore, the oceans—where ev -
However, these laws at tract ed the o lu tion ists say life be gan and where
in ter est of the sci en tif ic world on ly ami no ac ids had to form—are to tal ly
to wards the end of the cen tu ry. un suit ed to the for ma tion of pro -
Scientists ac cept ed the va lid i ty of teins. The chem ist Richard E.
these laws in the ear ly 20th cen tu ry. Dickerson ex plains why:
This rep re sent ed a se ri ous im passe

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