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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.
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.
Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck. 1802. Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck (French, 1744–1829) wrote Recherches sur l'Organisation des Corps Vivants and Philosophie zoologique (1809). He was an early evolutionist and organized invertebrate paleontology.
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck's 1809 evolutionary theory, transmutation of species, was based on a progressive (orthogenetic) drive toward greater complexity. Lamarck also shared the belief, common at the time, that characteristics acquired during an organism's life could be inherited by the next generation, producing adaptation to the environment.
August 1 – Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French naturalist (d. 1829) August 16 – Pierre Méchain, French astronomer (d. 1804) August 25 – Johann Gottfried Herder, German writer (d. 1803) September 25 – King Frederick William II of Prussia (d. 1797) date unknown. Marie Barch, Danish ballerina (d. 1827) Marie-Louise-Adélaïde Boizot, French ...
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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 ...
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