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PRONUNCIATION OF LAMARCKISM

Lamarckism  [lɑːˈmɑːkɪzəm] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LAMARCKISM

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Lamarckism is a noun.
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WHAT DOES LAMARCKISM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Lamarckism

Lamarckism

Lamarckism is the idea that an organism can pass on characteristics that it acquired during its lifetime to its offspring. It is named after the French biologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, who incorporated the action of soft inheritance into his evolutionary theories as a supplement to his concept of an inherent progressive tendency driving organisms continuously towards greater complexity, in parallel but separate lineages with no extinction. Lamarck did not originate the idea of soft inheritance, which proposes that individual efforts during the lifetime of the organisms were the main mechanism driving species to adaptation, as they supposedly would acquire adaptive changes and pass them on to offspring. When Charles Darwin published his theory of evolution by natural selection in On the Origin of Species, he continued to give credence to what he called "use and disuse inheritance", but rejected other aspects of Lamarck's theories. Later, Mendelian genetics supplanted the notion of inheritance of acquired traits, eventually leading to the development of the modern evolutionary synthesis, and the general abandonment of the Lamarckian theory of evolution in biology.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH LAMARCKISM


anarchism
ˈænəˌkɪzəm
catechism
ˈkætɪˌkɪzəm
cliquism
ˈkliːkɪzəm
cryptorchism
krɪpˈtɔːkɪzəm
geekism
ˈɡiːkɪzəm
Greenbackism
ˈɡriːnˌbækɪzəm
hierarchism
ˈhaɪərˌɑːkɪzəm
lookism
ˈlʊkɪzəm
masochism
ˈmæsəˌkɪzəm
monarchism
ˈmɒnəkɪzəm
monorchism
mɒnˈɔːkɪzəm
Neo-Lamarckism
ˌniːəʊləˈmɑːkɪzəm
panpsychism
pænˈsaɪkɪzəm
patriarchism
ˈpeɪtrɪɑːkɪzəm
psychism
ˈsaɪkɪzəm
sadomasochism
ˌseɪdəʊˈmæsəˌkɪzəm
schism
ˈskɪzəm
Sikhism
ˈsiːkɪzəm
synecdochism
sɪnˈɛkdəˌkɪzəm
Turkism
ˈtɜːkɪzəm

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LAMARCKISM

Lalo
lam
Lam.
lama
Lamaism
Lamaist
Lamaistic
Lamarck
Lamarckian
Lamartine
lamaseries
lamasery
lamb
lamb chop
lamb down
Lamb of God
Lamb shift

WORDS THAT END LIKE LAMARCKISM

activism
antiblackism
autism
comstockism
criticism
hedonism
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journalism
Judaism
mechanism
metabolism
mountebankism
phenakism
prism
professionalism
racism
rankism
Stuckism
terrorism
tourism

Synonyms and antonyms of Lamarckism in the English dictionary of synonyms

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拉马克
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lamarckismo
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Lamarckism
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Lamarckism
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Lamarckism
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ламаркизм
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Lamarckism
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লামার্কবাদ
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Lamarckism
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Lamarckism
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Lamarckismus
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ラマルキズム
130 millions of speakers

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Lamarckism
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Lamarckism
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Lamarckism
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இலமரக்கின்கொள்கை
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Lamarckism
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Translator English - Turkish

Lamarkçılık
70 millions of speakers

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Lamarckism
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Lamarkizm
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ламаркізм
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Lamarckism
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Lamarckism
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Lamarckism
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Lamarckism
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Lamarckism
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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LAMARCKISM»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Lamarckism

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LAMARCKISM»

Discover the use of Lamarckism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Lamarckism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Transformations of Lamarckism: From Subtle Fluids to ...
A reappraisal of Lamarckism--its historical impact and contemporary significance.
Snait Gissis, Eva Jablonka, 2011
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Neo-Darwinism and Neo-Lamarckism
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series.
Lester Frank Ward, 2010
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Darwinism and Lamarckism, Old and New: Four Lectures...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Frederick Wollaston Hutton, 2011
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Neo-Lamarckism and the evolution controversy in France, ...
The book promises to be useful for upper-division undergraduate and graduate students through research scholars in the biological sciences as well as those investigating the development of scientific ideas.
Stuart Michael Persell, 1999
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Destructive Interference: The Evolution of "Lamarckism"
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2008 in the subject Philosophy - Miscellaneous, grade: A+, University of Pittsburgh (USA), course: Senior Seminar in the History and Philosophy of Science, 35 entries in the bibliography, language: English, ...
Francis Cartieri, 2013
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Molecular Models of Life: Philosophical Papers on Molecular ...
Such a construal of neo-Lamarckism, which might be called "strong neo- Lamarckism," would be uninteresting since it is quite trivially false: that at least some mutations are random is uncontroversial. Neo-Lamarckism will, therefore, ...
Sarkar
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Racial Fever: Freud and the Jewish Question
No less a scholar than Yerushalmi has followed Jones' suggestions that Freud's Lamarckism was both scientifically misguided and peculiarlyJewish. In Freud's Moses, Yerushalmi pays special attention to Freud's “stubborn” refiisal to ...
Eliza Slavet, 2009
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Evolution and Human Behavior: Darwinian Perspectives on ...
Darwin is known to have rejected Lamarckism, but what he was really rejecting was the additional notion within Lamarckism that creatures possessed an inherent tendency to strive towards greater complexity. It was this teleological idea of ...
John Cartwright, 2000
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Lamarckism
Lamarckism is the once popularly accepted, but since mainly discredited, idea that an organism can pass on characteristics that it acquired during its lifetime to its offspring.
Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster, 2009
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Creative Evolution: A Physicist's Resolution Between ...
The. Old. Controversy: Lamarckism. One scientific controversy that just won't go away is associated with the name of the biologist Jean Baptiste de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck, whose major work predated Darwin's by about forty years.
Amit Goswami, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LAMARCKISM»

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Artificial DNA acts just like the real thing. Does that mean we should …
Clearly, some aspects of Lamarckism come to the fore: If changes are made to an organism, are the associated acquired changes inherited by ... «Genetic Literacy Project, Jul 15»
2
Did dinosaurs roam Idaho?
That was called Lamarckism - a theory generally rejected today. This started Darwin thinking. His grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, a physician ... «Coeur d'Alene Press, Jul 15»
3
Putin Is Reviving Stalinism in Science
Lamarckism was seen as discredited by most biologists in the 20th century—but now has some new supporters. A particularly infamous ... «Newsweek, May 15»
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A rise in nationalism in Putin's Russia threatens the country's …
Lamarckism was seen as discredited by most biologists in the 20th century – but now has some new supporters. Agronomist Lysenko oversaw ... «The Conversation US, May 15»
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Digital Transformation: Digital Darwinism or Survival of the Nimblest?
In that sense, we are much closer to Digital Lamarckism than Digital ... Lamarckism is the idea that an organism can pass on characteristics that ... «Business 2 Community, May 15»
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Debasing Statistics, Science's Mathematical Foundation, in the …
Still having soft spot for Lamarckism/Lysenkoism when it suits their ideology. Science writers Alex Berezow and Hank Campbell have correctly ... «Canada Free Press, Mar 15»
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Still No Basis for Stretched-Rubbery Theory of Body-Plan Origins …
The opposite of Lamarckism is much closer to Mendelism than it is ... I do not even understand what you mean by Lamarckism in this instance. «Discovery Institute, Mar 15»
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Lamarck Rescued by RNA? New "Level of Organization" Found for …
If Lamarckism were true, bodybuilders would have muscular sons. ... What's usually left out of this narrative is that Lamarckism did not go out ... «Discovery Institute, Feb 15»
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Art Forms in Nature – Eye-popping art prints from an eccentric scientist
Haeckel himself was a champion of Darwinism, but he added Lamarckism and some unpleasant conjectures about race into his philosophical ... «Boing Boing, Jan 15»
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Devangshu Datta: State-supported pseudo-science
Lysenko believed in Lamarckism. He thought acquired characteristics can be inherited. For example, if a plant is exposed to cold, the plant's ... «Business Standard, Jan 15»

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