Sentence examples for acquired characteristics from inspiring English sources

Gillian Beer has written about these in terms of Darwinian speculation about acquired characteristics.

New variants might arise at random, or they might be acquired characteristics induced by food, for all Darwin knew.

Acquired characteristics are not inherited, though the idea persisted as a serious scientific concept into the 20th century.

The Soviet Union was the center of a shifting debate as to whether acquired characteristics could be inherited.

To this extent, acquired characteristics are, indeed, being transmitted across the generations.

Today he is primarily remembered for his notion of the inheritance of acquired characteristics.

"War and Acquired Characteristics". pp 285-323 iNetworksks of Power: Electrification in Western Society, 1880-1930.

The dogma meant that the genetic message was impenetrable by information from outside the cell, thus excluding the Lamarckian thesis that acquired characteristics could be inherited.

That they should end up heading their parties in the House of Commons seems Darwinian: positive proof of the inheritance of acquired characteristics.

Immunocytochemistry indicated that human MSCs grown in KCM acquired characteristics similar to those of keratocytes.

In the workplace, we should be judged according to our merits--talent, intelligence, personality, and other innate and acquired characteristics--and not purely or primarily on our looks.