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Lamarck

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La·marck  (l-märk, lä-), Chevalier de Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet 1744-1829.
French naturalist whose ideas about evolution influenced Darwin's theory.
Lamarck (French) [lamark]
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(Biographies / Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet (1744-1829) M, French, SCIENCE: naturalist) Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet (ʒɑ̃ batist pjɛr ɑ̃twan də mɔnɛ), Chevalier de Lamarck. 1744-1829, French naturalist. He outlined his theory of organic evolution (Lamarckism) in Philosophie zoologique (1809)
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Noun1.LamarckLamarck - French naturalist who proposed that evolution resulted from the inheritance of acquired characteristics (1744-1829)
Chevalier de Lamarck, Jean Baptiste de Lamarck


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Lamarck would have been delighted with this fact, had he known it, when speculating [7] (probably with more truth than usual with him) on the gradually
The Voyage of the Beagle by Darwin, Charles View in context
Lamarck first called attention to this distinction, and he has been ably followed by Macleay and others.
The Origin of Species by Darwin, Charles View in context
Absolutely revolutionary for almost all lines if thought was the gradual adoption by almost all thinkers of the theory of Evolution, which, partly formulated by Lamarck early in the century, received definite statement in 1859 in Charles Darwin's 'Origin of Species.
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
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