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Lamarckism

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

The theory that structural variations characteristic of species and genera are produced in animals and plants by the direct influence of physical environments and esp in the case of animals by effort or by use or disuse of certain organs It is a discredited theory not believed by modern biologists

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