Inheritance
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The idea itself is pretty old. It goes back to the 18 hundreds, wright around napoleon's time. A fellow by the name of jean baptiste pierre antoine moni chevalier d lamark was one of the first grand theorists in biology. His big idea, you might know, is that what a person does in their lifetime could be directly passed to their kits very easily. The famous example was giraffes. La mark said, you want toknow, how giraffe got is neck? One day this mother giraffe, let say, was looking up in a tree and saw some fruit, and had to stretch her neck and stretch again. Whole
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