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Lamarck’s Impact

So, how could these "favorable variations" occur? Darwin tried to
answer this question from the standpoint of the primitive understand-
ing of science at that time. According to the French biologist Chevalier
de Lamarck (1744-1829), who lived before Darwin, living creatures
passed on the traits they acquired during their lifetime to the next gen-
eration. He asserted that these traits, which accumulated from one gen-

T he French biologist
Lamarck put forward
the totally irrational
claim that antelopes
turned into giraffes. The
truth is, however, that
Allah specially created
giraffes, in the same
way that He did all other
living things.

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