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Darwinism is based on several key principles, including overproduction of offspring, struggle for existence, survival of the fittest, and the origin of new species through the accumulation of favourable variations.

The inheritance of acquired characters (somatic variations) was proposed by Lamarck, not Darwin. August Weismann later proposed the theory of germplasm, which established that only germinal variations are inherited from parents to offspring, while somatic variations are not inherited. Therefore, the statement that both somatic and germinal variations are inherited is incorrect and is not explained by Darwinism.

Answer: Both somatic and germinal variations are inherited from parents to offsprings.