Why did contemporaries criticize JB Lamarck’s theory?

Lamarck mistakenly believed that environmental change always brings about beneficial changes in organisms. In addition, he could not explain where the “striving for progress” arises in organisms, and why the hereditary property of organisms should be considered expedient to respond to external influences.



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