Samuel Butler (novelist)
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Samuel Butler was an English novelist and critic, best known for the satirical utopian novel Erewhon and the semi-autobiographical novel The Way of All Flesh. Both novels have remained in print since
Portrait by Charles Gogin
Samuel Butler's birthplace and childhood home
Butler at the age of 23, in 1858
Lamarckism
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Lamarckism, also known as Lamarckian inheritance or neo-Lamarckism, is the notion that an organism can pass on to its offspring physical characteristics that the parent organism acquired through use o
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck repeated the ancient folk wisdom of the inheritance of acquired characteristics.
The long neck of the giraffe is often used as an example in popular explanations of Lamarckism. However, this was only a small part of his theory of evolution towards "perfection"; it was a hypothetical illustration; and he used it to discuss his theory of heredity, not evolution.
Edward Drinker Cope
Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard tried to demonstrate Lamarckism by mutilating guinea pigs.