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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck. Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck (August 1, 1744 – December 28, 1829) was a French naturalist and an early proponent of the idea that evolution (descent with modification) occurred and proceeded in accordance with natural laws. Lamarck, however, is remembered today mainly in connection with ...
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck proposed that organisms a) have an innate tendency toward complexity and perfection b) have an innate tendency to become simpler as time passes c) inherit all of the adaptations they display d) belong to species that never change
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 ...
On what point (s) would Charles Darwin and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck have agreed: (a) adaptation occurs when individuals change to adapt to their environment. (b) life is spontaneously generated all the time. (c) species give rise to new species. (d) simple organisms have existed for a shorter period of time than complex organisms.
Jean Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829) is one of the best-known early evolutionists. Unlike Darwin, Lamarck believed that living things evolved in a continuously upward direction, from dead matter ...
Abstract. From the early 19th century until the very present Lamarckism is a term that has come to cover a broad spectrum of theoretical positions on the nature of evolution. It originally referred to the theories of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744–1829) which are briefly presented.
1744–1829. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck is best remembered for the incorrect hypothesis that evolutionary change occurs due to the inheritance of acquired characteristics. However, Lamarck's contributions to biological thought are much more important than being the champion of a failed idea. He was the first really important thinker about evolution ...
