newly-taught

Updated: May 5, 2025

Nestlings which acquire the song of a distinct species, "teach and transmit their new song to their offspring." If use-inheritance has not fixed the song of birds, why should we suppose that in a single generation it has transmitted a newly-taught method of walking or trotting?

W. P. (William Platt) Ball - Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited?: An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin