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Lamarckian evolution is based on the notion that changes that happen to an organisms physiology are passed on when it reproduces. Taking this to an extreme to show why it has been discredited, a person who loses their arm during their childhood does not have babies that are born with one arm. With regard to cave fish, Lamarcks theory of evolution argues that they lose their eyes during their life, and pass on this "lack of eye-ness" to their offspring. Modern genetics has further dampened this idea, as acquired characteristics are not carried in genes.

Darwinian evolution argues that, at some point during the cave fishes history, a genetic mutation caused one to be born with no eyes (or more likely, one was born with slightly less functional eyes). These fish, due to the nature of their dark environment, would be at no disadvantage to their fully sighted brethren. Eyes can easily get infected or irritated, so nature may have favoured on the side of the eyeless ones. Over time blind cave fish became dominant, eventually reaching the pinnacle of existence by being discussed on the internet.

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