Your post isn't "off-topic," it's actually quite pertinent. The theory of evolution that was acceptable to the Marxists was, and still seems to be, Lysenkoism, which is a branch of Lamarckianism. Jean Baptiste Lamarck predated Darwin, and he believed in the inheritance of acquired characteristics. To put it at its most absurd, if you cut the tail off a mouse, the mouse's babies would be tail-less. That is patently absurd, and doesn't really do the theory justice. But it's completely antithetical to the way evolution is understood outside of the Soviet Union.
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On the other hand, Lamarckianism still has its proponents.
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The problem is that it is so patently obvious that evolution MUST exist, based on the fossil record, but science still can't pin-point HOW it happens.
Darwin's theory, that infinitesimal variations from the norm gradually become the norm as the species as a whole adapts to the environment, is the most elegant, and the most satisfying, IMO. |
