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LAMARCKISM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Lamarckism mean?
• LAMARCKISM (noun)
The noun LAMARCKISM has 1 sense:
1. a theory of organic evolution claiming that acquired characteristics are transmitted to offspring
Familiarity information: LAMARCKISM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A theory of organic evolution claiming that acquired characteristics are transmitted to offspring
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Lamarckism" is a kind of...):
evolutionism; theory of evolution; theory of organic evolution ((biology) a scientific theory of the origin of species of plants and animals)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Lamarckism"):
Neo-Lamarckism (a modern Lamarckian theory emphasizing the importance of environmental factors in genetic changes and retaining the notion of the inheritance of acquired characters)
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