Edward Drinker Cope was an American paleontologist and comparative anatomist who founded the school of Neo-Lamarckism. Neo-Lamarckism stresses the role of internal vital forces and the inheritance of acquired characteristics in evolution, believing that environmental changes cause conscious reactions in animals and that these modifications are passed to offspring through their germ cells. The theory focuses on the direct effects of environmental changes on organisms.

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*Neo-Lamarckism

2. Edward drinker cope
(July 28,1840—April 12,1897)
was an American paleontologists
and comparative anatomist. He
was a founder of Neo-
Lamarckism school of thought.
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history of
evolutionary thought
population genetics
the eclipse of Darwinism
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6. *The theory lays stress on
internal vital force,
appetency and use and
disuse of organs.
*It believes that change in
environment brings about a
conscious reaction in
animals.
*According to Lamarckism
the acquired characters are
pass on to the next
generation.
*It does not give any
importance to these factors.
*The theory stresses on the
direct effect of changed
environment on organisms.
*Normally on these
modifications are transferred
to the next generation which
influence germ cells or
where somatic cells give rise
to germ cells.
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