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Jean Lamarck (1744 - 1829)
- Jean Lamarck (1744 - 1829) : Jean Lamarck proposed that adaptive characteristics acquired during an organism's lifetime were inherited by that organism's offspring. This was the mechanism by which species were transformed.
Please see also Inheritance of acquired characteristics.
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