Darwin's contemporary Spencer, and Darwin himself, thought this of Lamarck (they disagreed about its truth), and those called Neo-Lamarckians in the late 19th century also held this view and attributed it to Lamarck. Mayr argues it was due to mistranslation of the word besoin to want rather than need.
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Usually sound is used to mean sound which can be perceived by the human ear, i.e., sound refers to audible sound unless otherwise classified. A reasonably standard definition of audible sound is that it is a pressure wave with frequency between 20 Hz and 20,000 Hz and with an intensity above the standard threshold of hearing.