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   From: renia@DELETEotenet.gr   
      
   David Friedman wrote:   
      
   > I'm taking no position on whether he is correct--I've never read   
   > Lamarck, nor have I checked what histories of science written at   
   > different times say. But that's his argument, as best I can tell, and   
   > you seem to have completely missed it.   
      
      
   I profess total ignorance about Lamarck, until the emergence of this   
   thread. I could Google him, etc, but I'm not going to so I haven't got a   
   clue who or when he was or what his teachings were. Perhaps someone   
   could tell me why Lamarck was significant enough to be taught in   
   American schools, but not in British ones? That is, as you have all come   
   across Lamarck, I imagine you learnt of him in school?   
      
   (It's times like this that I realise just how American this newsgroup   
   actually is! Any other Brits out there who heard about Lamarck in school?)   
      
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