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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck was born in Bazentin, Picardy, northern France, [5] as the 11th child in an impoverished aristocratic family. [Note 2] Male members of the Lamarck family had traditionally served in the French army.
Lamarck by Charles Thévenin (c. 1802). Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744–1829) was a member of the French Academy of Sciences and a professor of botany at the Jardin des Plantes and then became the first professor of zoology at the new Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle.
Members of the family became bishops in the Prince-Bishoprics of Liège, Münster and Osnabrück, and Archbishops in Cologne. Later collateral lines became dukes of Bouillon , a title which was later inherited by the House of La Tour d'Auvergne , princes of Sedan , dukes of Nevers , counts of Rethel and so forth.
Lamarck argued, as part of his theory of heredity, that a blacksmith's sons inherit the strong muscles he acquires from his work. [1]Lamarckism, also known as Lamarckian inheritance or neo-Lamarckism, [2] is the notion that an organism can pass on to its offspring physical characteristics that the parent organism acquired through use or disuse during its lifetime.
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744−1829) — an 18th century and 19th-century French naturalist, botanist, taxonomist, and zoologist
Lamarck thought there was an inherent progressive tendency driving organisms continuously towards greater complexity, in parallel but separate lineages with no perceptible extinction. [12] Geoffroy contended that embryonic development recapitulated transformations of organisms in past eras when the environment acted on embryos, and that animal ...
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Blainville rejected evolution. He was a critic of Lamarck's evolutionary ideas but similar to Lamarck proposed a great chain of being. [7] [8] First mention of the word palæontologie, as coined in January 1822 by Blainville in his Journal de physique. It was in 1822 that he coined the term paleontology.