Neo-Darwinism is a term used to describe certain ideas about the mechanisms of evolution that were developed from Charles Darwin's original theory of evolution by natural selection: while separating them from his hypothesis of Pangenesis as a Lamarckian source of variation involving blending inheritance. The term was first used by George Romanes in 1895 to refer to the idea that evolution occurs solely through natural selection, as proposed by Alfred Russel Wallace and August Weismann, in other… (More on Neo-darwinism)