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| Title |
Is evolution Darwinian or/and Lamarckian?
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Biology Direct, November 2009
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| DOI | 10.1186/1745-6150-4-42 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Eugene V Koonin, Yuri I Wolf |
| Abstract |
The year 2009 is the 200th anniversary of the publication of Jean-Bapteste Lamarck's Philosophie Zoologique and the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species. Lamarck believed that evolution is driven primarily by non-randomly acquired, beneficial phenotypic changes, in particular, those directly affected by the use of organs, which Lamarck believed to be inheritable. In contrast, Darwin assigned a greater importance to random, undirected change that provided material for natural selection. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 15 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 5 | 33% |
| Uzbekistan | 1 | 7% |
| Ecuador | 1 | 7% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 7% |
| Unknown | 7 | 47% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 12 | 80% |
| Scientists | 2 | 13% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 7% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 626 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Brazil | 17 | 3% |
| United States | 9 | 1% |
| Germany | 5 | <1% |
| Russia | 5 | <1% |
| Spain | 4 | <1% |
| Canada | 3 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | <1% |
| Chile | 2 | <1% |
| Turkey | 2 | <1% |
| Other | 20 | 3% |
| Unknown | 556 | 89% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 153 | 24% |
| Researcher | 124 | 20% |
| Student > Bachelor | 77 | 12% |
| Student > Master | 75 | 12% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 31 | 5% |
| Other | 99 | 16% |
| Unknown | 67 | 11% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 333 | 53% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 97 | 15% |
| Social Sciences | 16 | 3% |
| Immunology and Microbiology | 14 | 2% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 12 | 2% |
| Other | 77 | 12% |
| Unknown | 77 | 12% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 35. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 December 2023.
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#1,174,941
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#23
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#3,167
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#2
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