Out went Lamarck, in came Darwin. Mendel’s insights set the rules for genetic inheritance, then certain exceptions to Mendel’s rules materialized. So forth and so on. The most recent, broadly ...

Unlike Darwin, Lamarck held that evolution was a constant process of striving toward greater complexity and perfection. Even though this belief eventually gave way to Darwin's theory of natural ...

Unlike Darwin, Lamarck held that evolution was a constant process of striving toward greater complexity and perfection. Even though this belief eventually gave way to Darwin's theory of natural ...

is recognised as the scientist most associated with the theory of evolution, however ... of cases this type of inheritance cannot occur. Lamarck's theory cannot account for all the observations ...

However, Darwin did not invent the idea of evolution and not everyone saw his ideas as original. The great geologist Charles Lyell repeatedly referred to Lamarck s theory as modified by Darwin ...

Lamarck mistakenly thought such traits could ... He hesitated to publish partly because radicals were taking up evolutionary theory as a way to undermine the idea of a divinely ordained social ...

In the decades since its introduction, the neutral theory of evolution has become central to the study of evolution at the molecular level, in part because it provides a way to make strong ...