The Genius in All of Us (2011)
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Lamarck called it “the inheritance of acquired characteristics”—the notion that an individual’s actions can alter the biological inheritance passed on to his or her children. For example, giraffes, according to Lamarck’s theory, had developed longer and longer necks over the generations because of the giraffe's practice of reaching higher and higher for food. The giraffe is... obliged to browse on the leaves of trees and to make constant efforts to reach them. From this habit long maintained in all its race, it has resulted that the animal’s forelegs have become longer than its hindlegs, and that its neck is lengthened. —JEAN-BAPTISTE DE LAMARCK, Philosophie Zoologique, 1809
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