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A Dictionary of Ecology | Date: 2004

acquired characteristics Characteristics that are acquired by an organism during its lifetime, according to early evolutionary theorists (e.g. Lamarck and Buffon). Lamarck further suggested a kind of directional, non-random evolution, in that traits acquired in one generation as a result of behavioural changes in response to environmental stimuli would be transmitted to the gametes and inherited by the next generation. Thus, over several generations, a particular type of organism would become better adapted to its environment. The kinds of acquisition envisaged by Lamarck and their heritability are now discredited, although organic selection simulates them.

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