Lamarckian Evolution: Early concept of evolution developed by the French naturalist Jean Baptiste Lamarck that claimed that the aquired characteristics developed from practice became heritable characteristics. Thus a giraffe, by continuing to stretch his neck will pass down to its offspring an increase streching ability and the long neck that goes with it. Similarly, evolutionary psychologists stretch the truth by creating concepts like 'memes' (ideas that spread and multiply through use) that themselves act like Lamarckian replicators, with the academics who pose these explanations ending up looking stretched themselves, like Pinocchio's nose.
