Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

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Lamarckism

Lamarckism, also known as Lamarckian inheritance or neo-Lamarckism, is the notion that an organism can pass on to its offspring physical characteristics that the parent organism acquired through use or disuse during its lifetime. It is also called the inheritance of acquired characteristics or more recently soft inheritance.

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  1. Lamarck and Natural Selection

    Melvyn Bragg discusses Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, the 18th century French scientist, and his theory of Natural Selection. Who was he and how far did he pave the way for Darwin?

    26 December 2003

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    Featuring: Sandy Knapp, Steve Jones, Simon Conway Morris

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  2. Lysenkoism

    Melvyn Bragg discusses the dark world of science under Joseph Stalin through the career of his chief geneticist Trofim Lysenko.

    5 June 2008

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    Featuring: Robert Service, Steve Jones, Catherine Merridale

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