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Acquired characteristics are inherited in technology and culture. lamarckian evolution is rapid and accumulative. it explains the cardinal difference between our past, purely biological mode of change, and our current, maddening acceleration toward something new and liberating- or toward the abyss.
-Stephen Jay Gould
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Acquired Characteristics Are Inherited In Technology And

Stephen Jay Gould
Acquired characteristics are inherited in technology and culture. lamarckian evolution is rapid and accumulative. it explains the cardinal difference between our past, purely biological mode of change, and our current, maddening acceleration toward something new and liberating- or toward the abyss.
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