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Evolution 101. An introduction to evolution: what is evolution and how does it work? The history of life: looking at the patterns – Change over time and shared ancestors; Mechanisms: the processes of evolution – Selection, mutation, migration, and more; Microevolution – Evolution within a population; Speciation – How new species arise
Mar 20, 2024 · Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, pioneering French biologist who is best known for his idea that acquired characters are inheritable, an idea known as Lamarckism, which is refuted by modern genetics and evolutionary theory. He was also known as a botanical and zoological systematist and as a founder of invertebrate paleontology.
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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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Apr 12, 2021 · The Lamarckian concepts that we consider important for teaching evolutionary thought are the following: (1) the species as an arbitrary concept, directly related to the Lamarckian concept of the continuous transformation of species, (2) the ancestor–descendant relationship, and organic diversification from a common plan of organisation to a ...
- Ricardo Noguera-Solano, Juan Manuel Rodríguez-Caso, Rosaura Ruiz-Gutiérrez
- 2021
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 ...
- 18 December 1829 (aged 85), Paris, France
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.
