How were Lamarck’s and Darwin’s ideas most similar?

Both Lamarck and Darwin recognized that traits could be passed from parents to offspring. They disagreed about how useful traits arose: Lamarck proposed that traits acquired during an individual’s lifetime could be inherited, while Darwin explained that inherited variations became more common through natural selection. So their shared idea was inheritance, not that evolution happens within one individual’s lifetime.

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