Darwinian Revolution

Lamarckian Inheritance on Stage (1x17)

Air date: Mar 22, 2022

Two controversies in the 20th century show the staying power of Lamarck's theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics. In Austria, biologist Paul Kammerer claimed that bodily changes in amphibians were heritable. In the Soviet Union, agronomist T. D. Lysenko made a similar claim about food crops.