Of course, Lamark— even when I was eight and read this in an encyclopedia it was obvious that Weismann was making pro ...
... e said “No! Here are the things that I believe account for evolution.” And he named the things that Lamarck and Darwin's grandfather, Erasmus Darwin \(was an evolutionist in the 18th century, at the very end ...
... ntury, at the very end of the 18th century). Erasmus Darwin was saying exactly the same things that Lamarck said. That sexual selection and adaptation and inheritance of acquire traits. Darwin, as late as th ...
... traits. Darwin, as late as the 1860’s, said “You’re distorting me. I agree with Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck on these points.”
... e 18th century. And people like Darwin, instead of writing scientific treatises about evolution, as Lamarck did in France (which was relatively loose), Darwin wrote a poem about the nature of life and put hi ...
