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  1. Biography of Lamarck. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Lamarck (1744 - 1829) remains the best known figure of the pre-Darwinian era of evolutionism. Regrettably, he is usually viewed as a mere caricature of his ideas, namely as the person who got it "wrong" for insisting on the inheritance of acquired features as the central mechanism of transmutation.

  4. May 18, 2018 · History. Honduran History: Biographies. Jean Baptiste Lamarck. Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste. views 3,232,981 updated May 18 2018. LAMARCK, JEAN-BAPTISTE. ( b. Bazentin-le-Petit, Picardie, 1 August 1744; d. Paris, 28 December 1829), botany, invertebrate zoology and paleontology, evolution. For the original article on Lamarck see DSB, vol. 7.

  5. Jean-Baptiste de Monet, knight de Lamarck, (born Aug. 1, 1744, Bazentin-le-Petit, Picardy, France—died Dec. 18, 1829, Paris), French biologist. He is credited with the first use of the word biology (1802).

  6. Apr 1, 2019 · Jean Baptiste Lamarck. Pooja Rai, Debasray Saha & Abhimanyu Kumar Jha. Living reference work entry. First Online: 01 April 2019. 141 Accesses. Download reference work entry PDF. Synonyms. Charles Darwin; Lamarkism; Traits. Definition. Evolution is the phenomenon of informative hidden potentialities.

  7. 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...

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