Telomeric sequences can be written in the general form Cn(A/T)m, where n >1 and m is 1 to 4.

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James Hutton and Charles Lyell – Uniformitarianism Darwin was greatly influenced by Lyell’s teachings, and he adopted uniformitarianism in his thinking about evolution.

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Chevalier de Lamarck - Inheritance of acquired characteristics

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In the most famous example of Lamarck’s theory, giraffes must have stretched their necks to reach foliage above them, and so their necks were lengthened. The longer necks were inherited, and over the course of generations, this process was repeated, and their necks got longer and longer. 

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Neo-Lamarckism - August Weismann cut off the tails of mice for many generations and showed that this mutilation had no effect on the tail length of their descendants