Lamarckism

Lamarckian theory of evolution was proposed by French biologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck. It proposed that organisms' efforts to adopt to the environment can be accumulated and passed on to their off-springs. In his book Origin of Species, Darwin has spoken favorably of Lamarckian theory of evolution. However since the publication of Darwin's theory of natural selection and because of the lack of evidence for Lamarckian evolution in macro-biology, most biologists today favor Darwinian theory of evolution as the explanation for how human was evolved.