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Was Lamarck right?

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02-29-2004 3:00 PM 		Reply to: Message 3 by Tamara
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Re: a matter of degree?
Mayr was born in 1904 so he will be 100 this year. And he had a book (_What Evolution Is_) published in 2001.
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I can't say that I think that the acquisition of genes from other organisms is what Lamarck had in mind - it is the gene that is acquired rather than the trait.
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