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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Lamarckism; giraffe Charles Darwin: On the Origin of Species Weismann, August Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard Julian Huxley Trofim Lysenko Salvador E. Luria. Max Delbrück, c. 1960s. Joshua Lederberg, 1958.
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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Lamarckism; giraffe
Charles Darwin: On the Origin of Species
Weismann, August
Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard
Julian Huxley
Trofim Lysenko
Salvador E. Luria.
Max Delbrück, c. 1960s.
Joshua Lederberg, 1958.
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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
French biologist
Edward Drinker Cope, c. 1889
Edward Drinker Cope
American paleontologist