"Lamarckian" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... climate has done no more than produce a transitory change, it is clear that thousands of years do not, necessarily, cause constant and specific alterations. This requirement is one of the indispensable supports of the Lamarckian theory. The matter is capable of disproof however, and such disproof seems to be afforded by the direct evidence of the present condition of the alpine varieties at large, and by many other ...
— Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation • Hugo DeVries
... to deal only with the theory of selection, I need not discuss the Lamarckian hypothesis, but I must express my opinion that there is room for much doubt as to the cooeperation of this principle in evolution. Not only is it difficult to imagine how the transmission of functional modifications could take place, but, up to the present ...
— Evolution in Modern Thought • Ernst Haeckel
... in general the Lamarckian doctrine that each succeeding generation would have new characters added to it by the modification of environmental factors and by the use and disuse of organs and functions. Thus gradually under such selection the species would be improved. But Darwin emphasized selection ...
— History of Human Society • Frank W. Blackmar |
