Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, chevalier de Lamarck (1 August 1744 – 18 December 1829), often known simply as Lamarck (/ ləˈmɑːrk /; [1] French: [ʒɑ̃batist lamaʁk] [2]), was a French …

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, pioneering French biologist who is best known for his idea that acquired characters are inheritable, an idea known as Lamarckism, which is refuted by modern genetics and …

Lamarck started his scientific career as a botanist, but in 1793 he became one of the founding professors of the Musee National d’Histoire Naturelle as an expert on invertebrates. His work on …

Oct 13, 2025 · Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744–1829) was a French naturalist who provided one of the first comprehensive theories for the transformation of biological species over time.

Nov 16, 2025 · Discover the Jean-Baptiste Lamarck biography, from soldier to pioneering evolution theorist, and how his transformist ideas still influence biology today.

May 13, 2025 · Jean-Baptiste Lamarck was a scientist who studied botany and created the term 'invertebrate.' He proposed that species adapt to their environment and pass changes to the next …

Jean-Baptiste-Pierre-Antoine de Monet, chevalier de Lamarck, more commonly known as Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, was a legendary French biologist who advocated that acquired characteristics are …

May 20, 2025 · Although Darwin’s theory of natural selection ultimately supplanted Lamarck’s mechanism of inheritance of acquired traits, Lamarck was recognized as a pioneer for proposing a …

Lamarck did considerable pioneering work on physics, chemistry and meteorology. Following a roughly chronological format, Jordanova follows the development of Lamarck's scientific thinking, in …

Lamarck published a series of books on invertebrate zoology and paleontology. Of these, Philosophie zoologique, published in 1809, most clearly states Lamarck's theories of evolution.