Giraffe evolution mystery solved by bizarre fossil

By Evrim Yazgin
Updated June 13 2022 - 2:06pm, first published 12:00pm
Giraffe walking through the desert. Picture: Shutterstock.
Giraffe walking through the desert. Picture: Shutterstock.

Before Charles Darwin identified natural selection as the process by which species evolved, French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck put forward his own theory of evolution. Lamarck suggested that acquired characteristics were inheritable.