Whose scientific hypothesis was inheritance of acquired traits? Give an example of this hypothesis
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
I don't know what example
http://www.google.com/#q=jean-baptiste+lamarck+theory
So, you know Jean-Baptiste Lamarck hypothesis of the inheritance of acquired traits. Referred as Lamarckism. The first part of this was the theory of use and disuse; the idea that body parts used more often become stronger and larger, while parts not used slowly waste away and disappear.
Example is the femur bone of a whale and humans. A whale does not need this bone, meaning that it was acquired from a common ancestor. ((You could look up images of a femur bone of a whale in a diagram)).
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The scientific hypothesis of inheritance of acquired traits was proposed by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, a French biologist. According to Lamarck, organisms can pass on traits that they acquired during their lifetime to their offspring. He believed that these acquired traits were developed as a result of an organism's experience or environment.
An example of Lamarck's hypothesis of inheritance of acquired traits is the long neck of giraffes. Lamarck believed that giraffes originally had short necks and as they continuously reached for higher leaves on trees, they stretched their necks over successive generations. Therefore, according to Lamarck, the offspring of these elongated-necked giraffes would also have long necks. However, it is important to note that modern scientific understanding, including the theory of evolution and genetics, does not support the inheritance of acquired traits as proposed by Lamarck.