Good reason for any publisher to drop the Lamarck story ~ it's simply hearsay.
Huh? It's part of the history of science. In this case attempts to explain the fossil record.
This whole excursion into Lamarck started when I replied to FreedomProtector:
He had posted “If someone was to lift weights and increase their muscle mass, would genetic traits of bigger muscle would be passed on to their children?” --the typical answer was an unscientific, “yes”...
And I replied:
I'm having a hard time believing this; are you claiming that the teacher was so awful that you couldn't tell the disproved Lamarckian theory from normal biology?!