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- Jean-Baptiste de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck (1744–1829) (Fig. 1), a cultured French military man and scientist, saw the interplay between two powerful factors: the innate heritability of characteristics acquired under the influence of the environment (l'influence des circonstances) and a certain immanent force pulling living nature towards greater complexity and higher adaptability (le pouvoir de la vie) as the cumulative driver of evolution.
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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 ...
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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Apr 12, 2021 · The Evolutionary Thought of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck. Why His Original Ideas Should Be Taught in Classrooms. Article. Published: 12 April 2021. Volume 30 , pages 909–929, ( 2021 ) Cite this article. Download PDF. Ricardo Noguera-Solano, Juan Manuel Rodríguez-Caso & Rosaura Ruiz-Gutiérrez. 1142 Accesses. 1 Citation. 1 Altmetric. Explore all metrics.
- Ricardo Noguera-Solano, Juan Manuel Rodríguez-Caso, Rosaura Ruiz-Gutiérrez
- 2021
In the case of the French biologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, his name since the end of the nineteenth century has been tightly linked to the idea of the inheritance of acquired characters. This was indeed an idea that he endorsed, but he did not claim it as his own nor did he give it much thought.
- Richard W. Burkhardt
- 10.1534/genetics.113.151852
- 2013
- Genetics. 2013 Aug; 194(4): 793-805.
Lamarck's contribution to evolutionary theory consisted of the first truly cohesive theory of biological evolution, in which an alchemical complexifying force drove organisms up a ladder of complexity, and a second environmental force adapted them to local environments through use and disuse of characteristics, differentiating them from other ...
Today, the name of Lamarck is associated merely with a discredited theory of heredity, the "inheritance of acquired traits." However, Charles Darwin, Lyell, Haeckel , and other early evolutionists acknowledged him as a great zoologist and as a forerunner of evolution.
Jan 1, 2022 · First Online: 01 January 2022. pp 3720–3725. Cite this reference work entry. Pooja Rai, Debasray Saha & Abhimanyu Kumar Jha. 5 Accesses. Download reference work entry PDF. Synonyms. Charles Darwin; Lamarkism; Traits. Definition. Evolution is the phenomenon of informative hidden potentialities.
