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Lamarckism vs Evolutionism - What's the difference?

lamarckism | evolutionism |

As nouns the difference between lamarckism and evolutionism

is that lamarckism is the theory that structural variations, characteristic of species and genera, are produced in animals and plants by the direct influence of physical environments, and especially, in the case of animals, by effort, or by use or disuse of certain organs while evolutionism is (countable) any of several theories that explain the evolution of systems or organisms.

lamarckism

English

(wikipedia Lamarckism)

Noun

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  • The theory that structural variations, characteristic of species and genera, are produced in animals and plants by the direct influence of physical environments, and especially, in the case of animals, by effort, or by use or disuse of certain organs.

    • Related terms

    * Lamarckian

    See also

    * Darwinism English eponyms

    evolutionism

    English

    (wikipedia evolutionism)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (countable) Any of several theories that explain the evolution of systems or organisms.
  • (uncountable) The advocacy of Darwinian evolution by natural selection (Darwinism).

    • Derived terms

    * creationary evolutionism * cultural evolutionism * social evolutionism * sociocultural evolutionism

    Related terms

    * evolutionist * evolutionistic * evolutionistically