Darwin's contemporary Spencer, and Darwin himself, thought this of Lamarck (they disagreed about its truth), and those called Neo-Lamarckians in the late 19th century also held this view and attributed it to Lamarck. Mayr argues it was due to mistranslation of the word besoin to want rather than need.
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