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Mainly that animals can change their own forms over time and that these traits are inherited by their offspring. A classic example is of a giraffe making its neck longer and longer by stretching for food that is high in the trees. These individuals would then produce children with long necks.

This concept of evolution is incorrect because individuals do not have conscious control over physiological changes to their body structure, and these conscious changes would definitely not be inheritable by offspring. Change is caused by random mutation in genes. Changes in body structure only happen at the group level because individuals born with an advantageous trait will produce more children than those who don't.

However, it should be noted that the newly emerging field of Epigenetics shows that Lamarck was at least partly right. The environment in which an individual lives can determine when or if a gene is activated. This can be passed on to offspring.

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