Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun neo-lamarckism

1 sense of neo-lamarckism

Sense 1
Neo-Lamarckism -- (a modern Lamarckian theory emphasizing the importance of environmental factors in genetic changes and retaining the notion of the inheritance of acquired characters)
       => Lamarckism -- (a theory of organic evolution claiming that acquired characteristics are transmitted to offspring)