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. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck. Wikimedia, CC BY-SA I’m referring to Lamarckism, named after theoretical proposals from French biologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck in…