# Ways in which you are annoyingly pedantic
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**Created:** [April 1, 2024, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ways-in-which-you-are-annoyingly-pedantic/999676 "2024-04-01T14:12:18Z")
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### Author:  [@xtenkfarpl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xtenkfarpl)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2025, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ways-in-which-you-are-annoyingly-pedantic/999676/301 "2025-06-26T15:22:03Z")
> [@sunstone](#):
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> But lots of people think that traits are produced with a particular result in mind
Hey, they still honor Lamarck in France… 🙂
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### Author:  [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2025, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ways-in-which-you-are-annoyingly-pedantic/999676/302 "2025-06-27T20:33:51Z")
> [@xtenkfarpl](#):
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> Hey, they still honor Lamarck in France… 🙂
Lamarck was a great biologist who really did not deserve Lamarckianism to be named after him. The inheritance of acquired characteristics was a minor part of his otherwise sound and coherent hypotheses about evolution, which predate any understanding of genetics. \
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### Author:  [@xtenkfarpl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xtenkfarpl)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2025, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ways-in-which-you-are-annoyingly-pedantic/999676/303 "2025-06-27T20:39:59Z")
True. I think he has been unfairly tarrred.
Still, he did miss the fundemental point…
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### Author:  [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2025, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ways-in-which-you-are-annoyingly-pedantic/999676/304 "2025-06-27T21:17:07Z")
> [@Ulfreida](#):
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> Lamarck was a great biologist who really did not deserve Lamarckianism to be named after him. The inheritance of acquired characteristics was a minor part of his otherwise sound and coherent hypotheses about evolution, which predate any understanding of genetics.
And the famous "experiments’ that proved Lamarckism was wrong are totally bous. Remember, it was inheritance of characteristics that a species _is striving for-_ so cutting off the tails of a bunch of mice was just unneeded cruelty. And today Lamarckism does have some small validity in a limited sense.
wiki- _In the 21st century, experimental results in the fields of [epigenetics](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics), [genetics](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetics), and [somatic hypermutation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatic_hypermutation) demonstrated the possibility of [transgenerational epigenetic inheritance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgenerational_epigenetic_inheritance) of traits acquired by the previous generation. These proved a limited validity of Lamarckism.[[6]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamarckism#cite_note-SpringerHolley2013-6) The inheritance of the [hologenome](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hologenome), consisting of the genomes of all an organism’s symbiotic microbes as well as its own genome, is also somewhat Lamarckian in effect, though entirely Darwinian in its mechanisms.[[7]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamarckism#cite_note-Rosenberg_Sharon_2009-7)_
Mind you, not quite like he imagined.
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