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Theory of inheritance of acquired characters was putforth by

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Lamarck

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Weismann

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Galton

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de Vries

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Jean Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829), a French biologist putforth his views on the evolution of life as a theory of 'inharitance of acquired characters' in his book 'Philosophic Zoologique' (1809)
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