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Philosophie Zoologique ("Zoological Philosophy, or Exposition with Regard to the Natural History of Animals") is an 1809 book by the French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, in which he outlines his pre-Darwinian theory of evolution, part of which is now known as Lamarckism.
- Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
- Musée d'Histoire Naturelle (Jardin des Plantes)
Oct 9, 2019 · Philosophie Zoologique, by early French biologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, was published in 1809. In this book, Lamarck developed the first complete theory of organic evolution, arguing that the incredible diversity of living material on the Earth came about through evolution and describing processes of evolutionary change that produced that ...
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Philosophie zoologique, 1809. Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres, (in seven volumes, 1815–22). Lamarck employed several mechanisms as drivers of evolution, drawn from the common knowledge of his day and from his own belief in the chemistry before Lavoisier.
- 18 December 1829 (aged 85), Paris, France
In Jean-Baptiste Lamarck: The inheritance of acquired characters. …Organization of Living Bodies”), his Philosophie zoologique (1809; “Zoological Philosophy”), and the introduction to his great multivolume work on invertebrate classification, Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres (1815–22; “Natural History of Invertebrate ...
Philosophie Zoologique, by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1809) Originally published in 1809, Lamarck’s Philosophie Zoologique contains the earliest account of a cohesive theory of the evolutionary process, putting forward the idea of the inheritance of acquired characteristics (that offspring inherit characteristics which their parents acquired ...
Philosophie Zoologique The great French zoologist Lamarck (1744–1829) was best known for his theory of evolution, called ‘soft inheritance’, whereby organisms pass down acquired characteristics to their offspring. Originally a soldier, Lamarck later studied medicine and biology, becoming particularly interested in botany.
Abstract. MR. ELLIOT has done a valuable piece of work in making a complete translation of Lamarck's “Philosophie Zoologique,” which was published in 1809, half a century before Darwin's ...
