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Choose the correct answers from the alternatives given.
Which of the following was most likely a proponent of the hypothesis of acquired traits

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Charles Darwin

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Jean Baptiste Lamarck

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August Weismann

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H. W. Bates

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The correct option is B Jean Baptiste Lamarck
Lamarck is best known for his "Theory of Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics", first presented in 1801. If an organism changes during life in order to adapt to its environment, those changes are passed on to its offspring.
So correct answer is B, Jean Baptiste Lamarck.

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