the lamarcube

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• NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I had to look it up. If you search Lamarck you find the guy, but the wikipedia page is massive. But searching ‘Lamarck theory’ brings up en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamarckism . TL;DR: inheritance of acquired characteristics.

  Lamarck argued that a blacksmith gets strong muscles from his work and his sons inherit those strong muscles.

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  • Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I mean, it wasn’t a horrible theory at the time, and there was even some evidence for it (because the blacksmiths sons were very likely also blacksmiths, and thus also muscular). Even Darwin couldn’t explain HOW his theory evolution was actually supposed to function, he basically just said that it did.

    Unfortunately, even after we discovered genes, people were still following Lamarck, and it’s offshoot, Lysonkoism got a LOT of people killed, despite by then being verifiably false.

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    • idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There’s also epigenetics, which could be described as a very limited version of Lamarckism that actually holds water. That’s stretching definitions, but it does involve lifestyle conditions in one generation that affect future generations. So far, it’s mostly restricted to things like famine in one generation leading to increased fat storage in future generations, iirc.

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    • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Lamarkism is a basic correlation / causation mix-up to be fair.

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  • Whorehoarder@lemmynsfw.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Blacksmith got jacked by crankin his shaft-shaped horn.

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  • Jolteon@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I mean, that’s basically halfway to pokémon evolution already. I’m in.

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• wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What happens when the giraffes get over 500m tall?

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  • Morphit@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If it’s a cube, I’d have questions before they got to 8m.
    If it’s 1m², but 500m tall, I’d have … different questions.

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    • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What if the region is just giraffe-shaped?

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• flora_explora@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Reminds me of Biotopia! Such a great and hilarious radionovela!! (But only if you understand Spanish)

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  • nicknonya@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    damn shame i don’t speak spanish… what’s it about?

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    • flora_explora@beehaw.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s a fictional news bulletin that is supposedly only for this small community of mad scientists all living together. And since they all have their over the top projects, it never gets boring. Like, you have the abogato (a cat that is also a lawyer), someone clones themselves way too many times, an artificial intelligence that is making a radio drama about this community but is digging up too many secrets. And hundreds of other funny stories.

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