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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 ...
Apr 12, 2021 · The name Lamarck is very well known in the teaching of biology, being associated with an early effort to explain evolution. Nevertheless, when evolution is taught in the classroom, the only Lamarckian ideas that stand out are related to the ‘inheritance of acquired characters’, invariably illustrated by the example of the lengthening of giraffes’ necks, as a way of contrasting Lamarckian ...
- Ricardo Noguera-Solano, Juan Manuel Rodríguez-Caso, Rosaura Ruiz-Gutiérrez
- 2021
kinetogenesis. (Show more) Lamarckism, a theory of evolution based on the principle that physical changes in organisms during their lifetime—such as greater development of an organ or a part through increased use—could be transmitted to their offspring. The doctrine, proposed by the French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck in 1809 ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Nov 5, 2013 · Possibly influenced by Rousseau, Lamarck eventually decided to give up medicine and devote himself full time to building a career as a botanist. Lamarck pursued his botanical studies for the next 10 years, under Bernard Jussieu in Paris, living on a small army pension, perhaps supplemented by support from his family.
- Bryan M. Turner
- 2013
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Apr 10, 2024 · This combination of factors accounted for diversity, complexity, and specialization. Lamarck named this process ‘ La marche de la nature ’ (later ‘transformism,’ ‘evolution’). 2 Thus, nature had a history of immense time-span. The model describing the causal mechanism assumed for these processes was hydraulic—the action of various ...
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.
Sep 9, 2009 · Work by Lamarck scholars over the past 20 years calls into question some of the assertions made by Dan Graur and his colleagues in their Book Review (Nature 460, 688–689; 2009).
