On the other side we have the writings of Darwin himself, which entertain the so-called Lamarckian factors as ... of what he conveniently calls “use-inheritance.” l He thus restricts himself ...

Lamarckism, also known as Lamarckian inheritance or neo-Lamarckism, is the notion that an organism can pass on to its offspring physical characteristics that the parent organism acquired through ...

In fact, the "inheritance of acquired characters" continued to have supporters well into the 20th century. Jean Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829) is one of the best-known early evolutionists.