The Inheritance of Acquired Characters and the Provisional Hypothesis of Pangenesis

Autor:	Conway Zirkle
Rok vydání:	1935
Předmět:	Literature Immutability business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Wish Biology Trace (semiology) Pangenesis Evolutionary biology Inheritance of acquired characteristics Inheritance business Erasmus+ Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics media_common
Zdroj:	The American Naturalist. 69:417-445
ISSN:	1537-5323 0003-0147
DOI:	10.1086/280617
Popis:	1. Lamarck was neither the first nor the most distinguished biologist to believe in the inheritance of acquired characters. He merely endorsed a belief which had been generally accepted for at least 2,200 years before his time and used it to explain how evolution could have taken place. The inheritance of acquired characters had been accepted previously by Hippocrates, Aristotle, Galen (?), Roger Bacon, Jerome Cardan, Levinus Lemnius, John Ray, Michael Adanson, Jo. Fried. Blumenbach and Erasmus Darwin among others. 2. If we wish to trace the history of evolution, we should search for naturalists who lived before Lamarck and who did not believe in the inheritance of acquired characters. Brock listed but two, (1) the unknown editor of Aristotle's "Historia Animalium," and (2) the philosopher, Immanuel Kant. 3. The dogma of the immutability of species met with general acceptance only late in the eighteenth and early in the nineteenth century. Botanists from the time of Theophrastos to the time of Linnaeus be...
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