neo-Lamarckianadj.n.

1884 A. S. Packard in Standard Nat. Hist. I. p. liii In the United States a number of naturalists have advocated what may be called neo-Lamarckian views of evolution.

1927 New Phytologist 26 289 As far as plants are concerned botanists have always been more inclined than zoologists to adopt the Neo-Lamarckian standpoint.

1963 P. H. Davis & V. H. Heywood Princ. Angiosperm Taxon. xii. 406 The whole phenomenon [of canalization], which appears superficially neo-Lamarckian, is thoroughly discussed.

1998 Europe–Asia Stud. 50 1196 Stalin had long been sympathetic towards the neo-Lamarckian theory of heredity which, with its emphasis on the inheritance of acquired characteristics, was compatible with Lysenko's approach.

1890 Science 15 110/1 Much of the evidence brought forward in France and Germany in support of the transmission of acquired characters..is of a very different order from that forming the main position of the so-called Neo-Lamarckians in America.

1910 Contemp. Rev. Jan. 107 This important factor of direct action, which has been brought so much into prominence by the Neo-Lamarckians.

1947 Sci. Monthly 64 484/1 Many neo-Lamarckians have..postulated direct effects of the environment on the organism, which were categorically denied by Lamarck.

1993 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 65 479 The notion that the environment exerted a determining influence was propagated in the work of the so-called neo-Lamarckians, an assemblage of late nineteenth-century European and American scholars from the natural as well as the social sciences.