Neo-Lamarckism

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

Neo-Lamarckism
    n 1: a modern Lamarckian theory emphasizing the importance of
         environmental factors in genetic changes and retaining the
         notion of the inheritance of acquired characters

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Neo-Lamarckism \Ne`o-La*marck"ism\, n. (Biol.)
   Lamarckism as revived, modified, and expounded by recent
   biologists, esp. as maintaining that the offspring inherits
   characters acquired by the parent from change of environment,
   use or disuse of parts, etc.; -- opposed of {Neo-Darwinism}
   (which see, above).

   Note: This theory has been thoroughly discredited, though it
         had some support for a time in the Soviet Union due to
         the influence of the biologist Lysenko.--
         {Ne`o-La*marck"i*an}, a. & n.
         [Webster 1913 Suppl.]