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Ethics and Evolution: Tensions in Post-Darwinian Literature

Posted on June 16, 2011 by Brett Shollenberger

In 1809, Jean Baptiste Lamarck’s mechanism for evolution proposed in his essay Zoological Philosophy, namely that the acquisitions and losses of an individual during its lifespan are passed onto its offspring, was roundly rejected by Lamarck’s contemporaries as biologically impossible, … Continue reading →

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