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answer to this question on Lamarck. According to the French biologist La-
marck, who lived before Darwin, living things pass on physical changes
which they undergo during the course of their lives to subsequent genera-
tions, and new species emerge as a result of these properties which are
amassed from generation to generation. For example, in Lamarck's view,
giraffes developed from antelopes, whose necks had grown longer from
generation to generation as they struggled to eat the leaves on tall trees.
Darwin gave similar examples, for instance he claimed in The Origin
of Species that some bears which entered the water to find food turned in
time into whales. 144
But the laws of inheritance, which Mendel discovered and which
was proven with the development of genetic science in the 20 century,
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destroyed the myth that acquired traits can be passed on to later generati-
ons. In this way, natural selection was a "one off," and for that reason a
completely ineffective mechanism.
Neo-Darwinism and Mutations
In order to find a solution in this situation the Darwinists put for-
ward the "Modern Synthetic Theory," or Neo-Darwinism, as it is more wi-
dely known, at the end of the 1930s. Alongside natural selection, Neo-
Darwinism added as a "reason for favourable variations," mutations, or
defects in the genes of living creatures as a result of external influences
such as radiation of duplication errors.
And still today in the world the model which defends its validity in
the name of evolution is Neo-Darwinism. The theory maintains that the
millions of living species in the world emerged as a result of mutations, or
genetic defects over time, in these living creatures' countless complex or-
gans, such as ears, eyes, lungs, and wings. But there is a scientific fact
which disarms the theory: Mutations do not develop living creatures, on
the contrary, they always damage them.
The reason for this is very simple. DNA has a very complex structu-
re. Any chance alteration in the molecule only leads to damage. The Ame-