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   Lamarckism. evolution. taxonomy. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (born August 1, 1744, Bazentin-le-Petit, Picardy, France—died December 18, 1829, Paris) was a pioneering French biologist who is best known for his idea that acquired characters are inheritable, an idea known as Lamarckism, which is controverted by modern genetics and evolutionary theory.

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3. evolution.berkeley.edu › the-history-ofEarly Concepts of Evolution: Jean Baptiste Lamarck

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   And in 1801, a French naturalist named Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck took a great conceptual step and proposed a full-blown theory of evolution. Lamarck started his scientific career as a botanist, but in 1793 he became one of the founding professors of the Musee National d’Histoire Naturelle as an expert on ...

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   e. Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, chevalier de Lamarck (1 August 1744 – 18 December 1829), often known simply as Lamarck ( / ləˈmɑːrk /; [1] French: [ʒɑ̃batist lamaʁk] [2] ), was a French naturalist, biologist, academic, and soldier. He was an early proponent of the idea that biological evolution occurred and proceeded in ...

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   Who is Jean-Baptiste Lamarck?

   • Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (born August 1, 1744, Bazentin-le-Petit, Picardy, France—died December 18, 1829, Paris) was a pioneering French biologist who is best known for his idea that acquired characters are inheritable, an idea known as Lamarckism, which is controverted by modern genetics and evolutionary theory.

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   What did Jean-Baptiste Lamarck believe?

   • Lamarckism was discredited by most geneticists after the 1930s, but certain of its ideas continued to be held in the Soviet Union into the mid-20th century. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck proposed that acquired characteristics were inheritable.

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   How did Lamarckism influence evolution?

   • The doctrine, proposed by the French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck in 1809, influenced evolutionary thought through most of the 19th century. Lamarckism was discredited by most geneticists after the 1930s, but certain of its ideas continued to be held in the Soviet Union into the mid-20th century.

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   What is Lamarck's theory of transformation?

   • His theory is alternatively referred to as the theory of transformation or simply Lamarckism. Though today Lamarck's work is considered a major step forward, in his lifetime he did not receive much recognition. The classic example used to explain the concept of use and disuse is the elongated neck of the giraffe.

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6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › LamarckismLamarckism - Wikipedia

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   The idea is named after the French zoologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744–1829), who incorporated the classical era theory of soft inheritance into his theory of evolution as a supplement to his concept of orthogenesis, a drive towards complexity. Introductory textbooks contrast Lamarckism with Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural ...

7. ucmp.berkeley.edu › history › lamarckJean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829) - University of California ...

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   Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck was born on August 1, 1744, in the village of Bazentin-le-Petit in the north of France. He was the youngest of eleven children in a family with a centuries-old tradition of military service; his father and several of his brothers were soldiers. The young Lamarck entered the Jesuit ...

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   Though he was building on the work of his mentor, Count George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829) is often credited with making the first large advance toward modern evolutionary theory because he was the first to propose a mechanism by which the gradual change of species might take place. Also, he extended the ...