neo-Lamarckism

[nee-oh-luh-mahr-kiz-uhm]

noun

Biology.

1. Lamarckism as expounded by later biologists who hold especially that some acquired characters of organisms may be inherited by descendants, but that natural selection also is a factor in evolution.

Neo-Lamarckism

/ ˌniːəʊləˈmɑːkɪzəm /

noun

1. a theory of evolution based on Lamarckism, proposing that environmental factors could lead to adaptive genetic changes

Other Word Forms

• neo-Lamarckian adjective
• neo-Lamarckist noun
• Neo-Lamarckian adjective

Example Sentences

New doctrines and improved methods of enquiry have arisen—Mutationism, Mendelism, Weismannism, Neo-Lamarckism, Biometrics, Eugenics and what not—are being diligently exploited.

From Project Gutenberg

Neo-Lamarckism is therefore, of all the later forms of evolutionism, the only one capable of admitting an internal and psychological principle of development, although it is not bound to do so.

From Project Gutenberg