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theadvancedapes · 4328 days ago · link · · parent · post: What is Lamarck's Role in This Modern World?
Well said. However, regardless of whether Lamarck finds a home within evolutionary theory I think the Darwin quote you included in your article: sums up how we should feel about Lamarck. Limiting Lamarck's place in evolutionary history to first-year examples of how giraffes don't evolve does an injustice to his contribution to pre-Darwinian evolutionary thought.“Lamarck was the first man whose conclusions on the subject excited much attention. This justly celebrated naturalist first published his views in 1801...he first did the eminent service of arousing attention to the probability of all changes in the organic, as well as in the inorganic world, being the result of law, and not of miraculous interposition [1].”