Neo-Lamarckian

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Neo-Lamarckism \Ne`o-La*marck"ism\, n. (Biol.)
     Lamarckism as revived, modified, and expounded by recent
     biologists, esp. as maintaining that the offspring inherits
     characters acquired by the parent from change of environment,
     use or disuse of parts, etc.; -- opposed of {Neo-Darwinism}
     (which see, above).


  
     Note: This theory has been thoroughly discredited, though it
           had some support for a time in the Soviet Union due to
           the influence of the biologist Lysenko.--
           {Ne`o-La*marck"i*an}, a. & n.
           [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  neo-Lamarckian
       adj : of or relating to a modern version of Lamarckism;
             "Neo-Lamarckian theories"