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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

Lamarck's Impact ct
Lamarck's Impa
So, how could these "favorable variations" occur? Darwin
tried to answer this question from the standpoint of the primitive
understanding of science at that time. According to the French bi-
ologist Chevalier de Lamarck (1744-1829), who lived before Dar-
win, living creatures passed on the traits they acquired during
their lifetime to the next generation. He asserted that these traits,
which accumulated from one generation to another, caused new
species to be formed. For instance, he claimed that giraffes evolved
from antelopes; as they struggled to eat the leaves of high trees,
their necks were extended from generation to generation.
Darwin also gave similar examples. In his book The Origin of
Species, for instance, he said that some bears going into water to

Lamarck be lieved
that gi raffes evolved
from such an i mals
as an te lopes. In his
view, the necks of
these grass-eat ing
an i mals grad u al ly
grew longer, and
they even tu al ly
turned in to gi raffes.
The laws of in her it -
ance dis cov ered by
Mendel in 1865
proved that it was
im pos si ble for prop -
er ties ac quired dur -
ing life to be hand -
ed on to sub se -
quent gen er a tions.
Lamarck's gi raffe
fairy tale was thus
con signed to the
waste bin of his to ry.

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