Necks for sex In the 19th century, biologists Charles Darwin and Jean Baptiste Lamarck both speculated that giraffes' long necks helped them reach acacia leaves high up in the trees, though they ...

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 ...

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Before Darwin laid out the principles of natural ... Lamarckism — typified by the (incorrect) idea that giraffes have long necks because they're constantly stretching them to reach high leaves ...

Marlee the giraffe made a meal of some evergreen tree branches at Milwaukee Zoo in Wisconsin on3. Milwaukee County Zoo shared ...

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