Whether acquired characters could be transmitted to the next generation was a very different issue.

During the show the two objects acquired character traits.

The kind of observation which his letter suggests is, however, likely to lead to results either for or against the transmission of acquired characters.

Darwin excluded any assumption of the transmission of acquired characters.

The stew acquired character and individuality, and it would retain these things forever.

Weismann did offer some direct experimental evidence for the non-inheritance of acquired characters, and a great deal more is available today.

One is that most acquired characters are disadvantageous - they are results of injury, disease, and old age.

The basic concept of inheritance of acquired characters was finally widely rejected in the early 20th century.

Canalization of development and the inheritance of acquired characters.

We call such a putative mechanism "Lamarckism," or "the inheritance of acquired characters."

A sharp distinction between soma and germ line makes it possible to prevent acquired characters from being transmitted.

The inheritance of acquired characters was rejected, while mutationism gave way as genetic theories matured.

Weismann was one of the first biologists to deny the inheritance of acquired characters entirely.

In Dungeons and Dragons, lycanthropy is an acquired character template.

Genetic assimilation of an acquired character.

And acquired characters is not the essence of Lamarckism but a belief that Lamarck shared with all his contemporaries.

This theory was a holdover from the pre-Darwinian belief that offspring inherited acquired character traits from their parents.

The only serious alternative to natural selection as the cause of adaptation is Lamarck's notion of the inheritance of acquired characters.

Despite superficial appearances, this does not require the inheritance of acquired characters, although epigenetic inheritance could potentially influence the result.

The inheritance of acquired characters explained these trends as a consequence of the animals specializing for a particular way of life chosen by their ancestors.

Darwin presented natural selection as a scientifically testable mechanism while accepting that other mechanisms such as inheritance of acquired characters were possible.

Even the inheritance of acquired characters was taken up as the centrepiece for a self-consciously anti-Darwinian movement known as 'neo-Lamarckism'.

For instance, the existence of non-reproductive castes of ants, such as workers and soldiers, cannot be explained by inheritance of acquired characters.

Returning to the inheritance of acquired characters, Professor Weismann says that this has never been proved either by means of direct observation or by experiment.

The classic illustration of this "inheritance of acquired characters" is Lamarck's description of how giraffes developed elongated necks.