Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste

Lamarck. Jean>Baptiste de Monet, Chevalier de (1744-1829) French natural historian. In 1778 he published a flora of France, which included a dichotomous identification key, and later worked on the classification of invertebrates, published in a seven-volume natural history (1815-22). In 1809 he put forward a theory of evolution that has become known as Lamarckism (later rejected in favour of Darwinism). 

Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste. Lamarck s Open Mind The Lectures. Gold Beach, Ore. High Sierra Books, 2004. 

The man who proposed it, in 1809, was Jean Baptiste Lamarck, and his great contribution was a simple but shattering idea the facts... 

FIGURE 217. Jean Baptiste Lamarck was an important biologist who, unfortunately, is widely remembered for his incorrect theory of acquired traits. His chemistry, however, was very outmoded, and in his one chemistry text Lamarck tried to describe the repulsion between corpuscles of matter as they absorbed heat that caused them to expand and re-pel. (From Lamarck s 1794 Recherches Sur Les Causes Des Principaux Fans Physiqu s.)... 

C.C. Gillispie (Editor iii Chief), Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Vol. VII, Charles Scribner s Sons, New York, 1973, pp. 584-593. His full name, for the record, was Jean Baptiste Pierre An-toine de Moncet de Lamarck. 

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