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What is the mechanism that causes evolution. Both knew evolution occurred and occurs but did not know how or why. Lamark's " desire to evolve " and " acquired characteristics " failed to explain evolution. Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection was the better explanation.
Lamark
Lamarck's theory is that he thought that the long necks from giraffes come from other species of mammals.
The theory of natural selection, which was also embraced by another biologist, Lamark.
Lamark's Theories and assumptions are: 1.)El magnumonicus Trait 2.)Derived Planetary Devastations 3.)Unexplained Fossils 4.)Gigantic Fossils of Humanity
What is the mechanism that causes evolution. Both knew evolution occurred and occurs but did not know how or why. Lamark's " desire to evolve " and " acquired characteristics " failed to explain evolution. Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection was the better explanation.
Lamark's theory perhaps. Acquired characteristics clash with heredity.
Theories are just that. Theories are unproven ideas by people to explain a certain phenomena.
Darwin introduced the modern theory of evolution by natural selection, but it was also introduced by Lamark and other earlier biologists but Darwin was first to theorize about natural selection as the mechanism.
Because it was Darwin who made it a scientifically plausible explanation, by providing a mechanism by which evolution could occur....Natural Selection.
He is considered by many to be the father of the Theory of Evolution, though his uncle and Lamark had the genesis of that idea.
Lamark believed that behaviors learned by parents could become inheritable traits.
Darwin introduced the modern theory of evolution by natural selection, but it was also introduced by Lamark and other earlier biologists but Darwin was first to theorize about natural selection as the mechanism.
Lamark
He didn't. Lamark's theory of acquired characteristics preceded Darwin's theory by some years. Almost 50 years.
Jean Lamark was the scientist that first described evolution as a process of adaptation.
Lamarck's theory is that he thought that the long necks from giraffes come from other species of mammals.