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Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, chevalier de Lamarck (1 August 1744 – 18 December 1829), often known simply as Lamarck (/ l ə ˈ m ɑːr k /; [1] French: [ʒɑ̃batist lamaʁk] [2]), was a French naturalist, biologist, academic, and soldier.
In the early 19th century prior to Darwinism, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck proposed his theory of the transmutation of species, the first fully formed theory of evolution. In 1858 Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace published a new evolutionary theory, explained in detail in Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859). Darwin's theory, originally ...
Lamarckism, the first cohesive theory of evolution [88] as well as a theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics, laid out by French biologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck in 1809. Long dismissed in favour of Darwinism , recent developments in the field of epigenetics have led scientists to debate whether Lamarckism was, in fact, correct to an ...
1802: Jean-Baptiste Lamarck: teleological evolution. 1805: John Dalton: Atomic Theory in . 1820: Hans Christian Ørsted discovers that a current passed through a wire will deflect the needle of a compass, establishing the deep relationship between electricity and magnetism (electromagnetism).
History of technology by type; List of science timelines; ... Jean-Baptiste Lamarck publishes Philosophie Zoologique, outlining his theory of evolution.
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.
The French Transformisme was a term used by Jean Baptiste Lamarck in 1809 for his theory, and other 18th and 19th century proponents of pre-Darwinian evolutionary ideas included Denis Diderot, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Erasmus Darwin, Robert Grant, and Robert Chambers, the anonymous author of the book Vestiges of the Natural History of ...
History of technology by type; List of science timelines; ... December 28 – Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (born 1744), French naturalist. undated - Huang L ...