Our Origins: Discovering Physical Anthropology (Fourth Edition)
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Introduction: Jean Baptiste Lamarck proposed the Lamarckism theory. The Lamarckism states that evolution occurred through inheritance of acquired characteristics that acquired during the organism’s lifetime and passed to its offspring.
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