Development of Different Species

Lamarck suggests that the reason why species change is a "felt need," and such needs make organisms respond creatively. For Lamarck, evolution takes place in an upward fashion and does so because organisms want this to be the case. Gould says that Lamarckianism is a theory of directed variation, meaning that a felt need is actually a perception on the part of the organism so that the need is then fulfilled and the organism changes, at least for subsequent generations. The Lamarckian approach has often been mistaken for the Darwinian approach, and people ask how organisms can progress deliberately, as if they were able to choose what they were and as if evolution had a direction, a purpose, and a conscious control.

Darwin's approach is not so simple and involves a two-part process. Both Lamarck and Darwin base their view on the conception of adaptation, or the idea that organisms respond to changing environments by evolving a new form, function, or behavior. Information is transmitted to the organism from the environment in both cases. For Lamarck, the organism perceives the environmental change and adapts. In the Darwinian version, the first step is random and is known as genetic variation. T

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their time--notably Locke, Rousseau, and Hume--and developed a governmental system reflecting the new ideas expressed by these men. Since that time, the mechanism they set in motion has been modified as needed, and indeed a certain Lamarckian ability to respond to a felt need was included in the system so that the people could bring about change through an amendment process. Such changes at this level produce more changes throughout society. Indeed, we continue to this day to develop our culture based on felt needs at different levels, making small or large changes as we see fit in order to accomplish the task at hand. We do the same thing in our lives, changing our behavior according to new environmental influences. As the use of the computer becomes not only more widespread but more necessary, certain people in the government, notably officials in various law enforcement bodies and members of Congress, believe that computer use not only needs to be more regulated, but can be. This is what is involved in the present debate taking place over the Clipper Chip, an encoded device to be placed in all telecomputer products that makes it possible to protect the need of the consumer for privacy while also enabling the governmen
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