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How is lamarckian inheritance related to soft inheritance?


Asked by August Higgins on Dec 05, 2021 FAQ



Lamarckism (or Lamarckian inheritance) is the hypothesis that an organism can pass on characteristics that it has acquired through use or disuse during its lifetime to its offspring. It is also known as the inheritance of acquired characteristics or soft inheritance. It is inaccurately named after the French biologist...
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Lamarckism, also known as Lamarckian inheritance or neo-Lamarckism, is the notion that an organism can pass on to its offspring physical characteristics that the parent organism acquired through use or disuse during its lifetime. It is also called the inheritance of acquired characteristics or more recently soft inheritance.
Keeping this in consideration, According to Ernst Mayr, any Lamarckian theory involving the inheritance of acquired characters has been refuted as " DNA does not directly participate in the making of the phenotype and that the phenotype, in turn, does not control the composition of the DNA."
Indeed,
The inheritance of the hologenome, consisting of the genomes of all an organism's symbiotic microbes as well as its own genome, is also somewhat Lamarckian in effect, though entirely Darwinian in its mechanisms. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck repeated the ancient folk wisdom of the inheritance of acquired characteristics.
Furthermore,
Lamarck incorporated two ideas into his theory of evolution, in his day considered to be generally true: Use and disuse – Individuals lose characteristics they do not require (or use) and develop characteristics that are useful. Inheritance of acquired traits – Individuals inherit the traits of their ancestors.