XPost: soc.history.medieval   
   From: renia@DELETEotenet.gr   
      
   Steve Firth wrote:   
   > Renia  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Any other Brits out there who heard about Lamarck in school?   
   >   
   > Yes of course. It's incorrect to say that Lamarck is not, or was not   
   > taught in British schools. However his work was used as a horrible   
   > example of what happens when politics is allowed to interfere in   
   > science.   
   >   
   > Soviet Russia was keen on Lamarckianism. I don't think it was ever   
   > taught in America other than in the same way it was taught in Britain,   
   > with warnings that it was drivel.   
      
      
   Well, I never came across Lamarck in either my Grammar school in the   
   1960s or while studying my degree in the 1980s. I wonder why not? When   
   were you taught about Lamarckianism?   
      
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