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Influenced Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Georges Cuvier
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Influenced Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Georges Cuvier
Like many people, I’d always been baffled by the occasional, undeniably ‘Lamarckian’ passages in On the Origin of Species, bearing in mind Darwin is generally credited with having discredited such thinking.
Despite Darwin being thought of as having discredited Lamarckian inheritance, there are Lamarckian passages in portions of his work.