According to Rudyard Kipling's (very fictional) Just So Stories, the original Whale tried to eat a man, and in revenge the man stuck a grate in the whale's throat that prevented it from eating anything but very small fish-and that is why today's (baleen) whales, too, only eat tiny fish and crustaceans.Is this model more similar to Darwin's evolutionary model or Lamark's-and why?

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According to Rudyard Kipling's (very fictional) Just So Stories, the original Whale tried to eat a man, and in revenge the man stuck a grate in the whale's throat that prevented it from eating anything but very small fish-and that is why today's (baleen) whales, too, only eat tiny fish and crustaceans.Is this model more similar to Darwin's evolutionary model or Lamark's-and why?





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