Neo-Lamarckism

The neo-Lamarckian explanation of a physiological or psychological phenomenon (action, behavior, skill) states that it is acquired through the exercise or disuse of reflexes through the mechanism of heredity (adaptation), through a change in the body (skill, function) through stimulation, or otherwise through “lateral learning.” It is argued that organisms create the internal and external conditions of their lives through their own efforts. The term was introduced by the Austrian physiologist Franz Gallen in 1865, but it was Wilhelm Rudolf Görres who pointed out in 1912 the importance of a specific adaptation mechanism in the process of evolution.

**Neo-Lamarckism** - (neo- from the Latin novus “new”) a hypothesis according to which the sensitivity of organisms to stimuli, their learning and other behavioral manifestations are enhanced or weakened depending on whether the corresponding nervous structures are exercised or not. Unlike earlier Lamarckism, which explains such changes only as a “continuous