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What did lamarck think evolution involved that causeed his ideas to be incorrect?

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Lamarck thought organisms changed during their lifetimes based on their needs and that those changes were then passed on to the next generation. This is incorrect because organisms cannot acquire traits during their lifetimes, like longer arms or a longer neck, and pass them on to their offspring

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Lamarck’s idea of heritability which is basically that acquired characteristics were passed on was wrong. Lamarck, differed from Darwin in that he put forward the idea that organisms could pass on traits that they had acquired during their life to their offspring’s. This idea was wrong about evolution

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