Is getting used to someting counted as evolution?

[scottyiu]

Is getting used to someting counted as evolution?

[Bio-Hazard]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acclimatization

There's another term for this.. depends on what you are getting use to.

[MrMistery]

I would say... I have gotten used to my economy teacher, so i have evolved... Philosophically of course... Biologically no

[Bio-Hazard]

i could relate that to behavior conditioning and neuroscience!

[scottyiu]

But i thought evolution take millions of years, so how can we get use to something so quickly?

[chicoguardian]

Evolution is not connected to getting used to somethng, our brains psych gets familier witht he object and its uses, some quicker than others.. evolution is the major changes of man and animal each to suit their enviormnent... now you see they are not related right?

[dragonfuture]

i agree the information you have gained might not be known to your offspring thus not creating evolution but if it does and it changes the physical atributes of the person or anything else i think that would be evolution

[MrMistery]

What you are saying is lamarckism and it doesn't happen. We don't transmit our changes to our offspring..

[canalon]

So conclusion:
If you get used to something it can't be inherited so it is not evolution.

@MrMistery
Inheritance of acquired changes is not Lamarckism. It was a part of it, but far from being all of it. And remember that Darwin did not completely rule this out either, just saying that if it existed it would probably not be very important.

[MrMistery]

Well i didn't mean that it was all of it, but exactly what you said, that it was his idea. ABout Darwin i don't know, i haven't read the origin of species. Anyway, the important thing is that they are not transmitted