Hosted on MSN1mon
Scientists finally think they know why giraffe necks are so long
In the 19th century, Charles Darwin and Jean Baptiste Lamarck suggested that giraffes evolved long necks to help them snatch leaves on trees. A later theory usurped Darwin and Lamarck's ...
PBS8y
Jean Baptiste Lamarck
According to Darwin's theory, giraffes that happened to have slightly longer necks and limbs would have a better chance of securing food and thus be able to have more offspring -- the "select" who ...
Female giraffes drove the evolution of long giraffe necks in order to feed on the most nutritious leaves, new research suggests
In the 19th century, biologists Charles Darwin and Jean Baptiste Lamarck both speculated that giraffes’ long necks helped ...
BBC2y
The work of Lamarck
Charles Darwin close Charles DarwinAn English naturalist ... Lamarck's theory suggested that the giraffe's original short-necked ancestor repeatedly stretched its neck to reach the higher branches ...