". . . as their rhodopsin becomes superfluous, they may well create descendants who, in even middling darkness, are as blind as, it turns out, bats are not . .

". . . as their rhodopsin becomes superfluous, they may well create descendants who, in even middling darkness, are as blind as, it turns out, bats are not . . ." To say that there is a link between continued usage and inheritance of a genetic characteristic is Lamarckism. Lamarckism, also known as Lamarckian inheritance or neo-Lamarckism, is the notion that an organism can pass on to its offspring physical characteristics that the parent organism acquired through use or disuse during its lifetime. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamarckism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamarckism