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by evtothedev 1353 days ago
This is exactly wrong. Lamarck believed in the inheritance of acquired traits (e.g. if you cut off a mouse's tail, then its babies would be born with shorter tails).

Darwinism, conversely, is about selection from within a range of traits already present (i.e. beak size).

These frogs come in a variety of colors. Dark colors have a better fitness for the highly radioactive environment. Those are the ones that reproduce. This is textbook Darwinian evolution.

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And yet they arrived at their dark skin with improbable speed. How strange.