Note 158 — SYSTEMATICS AND HISTORY
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It has also very often been said by Darwinians that Lamarckism is only able to explain those cases of adaptedness which relate to active functioning but not mere passive adapted characters, like “mimicry” for example. But this argument taken by itself, it seems to me, would not be fatal to Neo-Lamarckism in the special form August Pauly gave to this doctrine.