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In the age of Neo-Darwinian evolution, that’s putting it mildly to say the least.

From Forbes • May 9, 2013

The Neo-Lamarckian theory supplies thus what is lacking in the Neo-Darwinian.

From The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by Tyler, John Mason

As a matter of fact, Buffon is much more of a Neo-Darwinian than either Dr. Erasmus Darwin or Lamarck, for with him the variations are sometimes fortuitous. 

From Unconscious Memory by Butler, Samuel

Besides, I am here taking Mr. Wallace as representative of the Neo-Darwinian school, one or other prominent member of which has given emphatic expression to each of the above propositions.

From Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility by Romanes, George John

There is the "Neo-Darwinian" view which attributes variation to the differences inherent in the germ borne by the individual, and not to the experience or behaviour of the individual in the course of his existence.

From Bergson and His Philosophy by Gunn, John Alexander