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Pim Edelaar, Visiting Professor, Division of Biodiversity and Evolution, Lund University; Universidad Pablo de Olavide

Updating Darwin: biologists are returning to an older theory to explain anomalies in evolution

Evolution is a fact of life. So much so that even the theory of evolution is evolving. Lately, a centuries-old discredited idea has been making a strong comeback. It helps us explain scientific observations that according to standard evolutionary theory should be impossible.

Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck. Wikimedia, CC BY-SA
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