spontaneous evolution vs non spontaneous evolution

Hello i ask you to help me settle an argument with my friend.
the qustion: can evolution be non-spontaneous in nature?
I will elaborate:
the qustion is is it possible that mutation can be non-spontaneous, in a way that a certin organisim developed a mutation on its own to survive in a certin enviroment.
I am not talking about natural selection, but the possibilty that lets say a giraffe, developed its long neck not because a spontaneous mutation occured, but because a "pre-giraffe" tried to get to the higher leaves and past a certin information to its offspring to develop a longer neck.