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	Jean-Baptiste Lamarck - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lamarck is remembered today mainly in connection with a discredited theory of heredity, the "inheritance of acquired traits", but Charles Darwin and others acknowledged him as an early proponent of ideas about evolution.
		Lamarck's own theory of evolution was in fact based on the idea that individuals adapt during their own lifetimes and transmit traits they acquire to their offspring.
		Lamarck saw spontaneous generation as being ongoing, with the simple organisms thus created being transmuted over time (by his mechanism) becoming more complex and closer to some notional idea of perfection.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lamarck (781 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search View - Lamarck
		While Lamarck's contributions to science include work in meteorology, botany, chemistry, geology, and paleontology, he is best known for his work in invertebrate zoology and his theoretical work on evolution.
		Lamarck's theoretical observations on evolution, referred to as transformism or transmutation in the early 19th century, preceded his extensive observational work on invertebrates.
		According to Lamarck, once nature formed life, the arrangement of all subsequent forms of life was the result of time and environment interacting with the organization of organic beings.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761557486__1/Lamarck.html (588 words)

	Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829)
		Lamarck's scientific theories were largely ignored or attacked during his lifetime; Lamarck never won the acceptance and esteem of his colleagues Buffon and Cuvier, and he died in poverty and obscurity.
		Today, the name of Lamarck is associated merely with a discredited theory of heredity, the "inheritance of acquired traits." However, Charles Darwin, Lyell, Haeckel, and other early evolutionists acknowledged him as a great zoologist and as a forerunner of evolution.
		Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck was born on August 1, 1744, in the village of Bazentin-le-Petit in the north of France.
	www.ucmp.berkeley.edu /history/lamarck.html (1669 words)

	Lamarck (1744 - 1829)
		However, Jean was not inclined to the ministry, and when his father died in 1760 Lamarck quit his Jesuit college, bought himself a horse, and rode away to join the French army in their campaign near Fissinghausen, Germany.
		Lamarck's theory was not generally accepted in his lifetime, and Cuvier, his colleague at the Museum, appears to have done as much as he could to undermine Lamarck and any ideas about transformism.
		Lamarck's books and the contents of his home were sold at auction, and he was buried in a temporary lime-pit whose remains were exhumed every five years or so, to be piled up in the Paris catacombs, anonymously and without dignity, alongside those of the impoverished, vagrant and unnamed dead.
	www.victorianweb.org /science/lamarck1.html (2283 words)

	Jean-Baptiste Lamarck -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Lamarck's own theory of ((biology) the sequence of events involved in the evolutionary development of a species or taxonomic group of organisms) evolution was in fact based on the idea that individuals adapt during their own lifetimes and transmit traits they acquire to their offspring.
		Born into poor nobility (hence 'chevalier'), Lamarck served in the army before becoming interested in (The systematic account of natural phenomena) natural history and writing a multi-volume flora of (A republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe) France.
		Lamarck saw (A hypothetical organic phenomenon by which living organisms are created from nonliving matter) spontaneous generation as being ongoing, with the simple organisms thus created being transmuted over time (by his mechanism) becoming more complex and closer to some notional idea of perfection.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/je/jean-baptiste_lamarck1.htm (829 words)

	Jean Baptiste Lemarck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Jean Baptists Lamarck was a French botanist and invertebrate zoologist who formulated one of the earliest theories of evolution.
		Lamarck accepted the view that animals in nature were arranged on one continuous natural scale.
		In his multi-volume work on invertebrates, Lamarck explains nature as being controlled by three biological laws: environmental influence on organ development, change in body structure based on use and disuse of parts and the inheritance of acquired characteristics.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/information/biography/klmno/lemarck_jean.html (421 words)

	Jean Baptiste Lamarck: Excerpts from his work and others - human evolution
		Lamarck's name has by historical chance become so heavily associated with the doctrine of acquired characteristics that it is often assumed he invented it.
		"Lamarck believed in a constant, spontaneous generation, so far as low forms of life were concerned, and he assumed a living scale of life which, in some respects, is reminiscent of the old Scala Naturae, although he broke partially away from the simple ladder arrangement.
		It is a terrible irony that Lamarck's name is irrevocably connected with the concept of the inheritance of acquired characteristics, whereas his truly original conception was the idea of organic evolution at the species level.
	www.serpentfd.org /b/lamarck.html (2082 words)

	chronology report
		Jean Baptiste Lamarck was one of the first people to propose a theory of evolution to the public.
		Jean Baptiste Lamarck was born in the village of Bazentin-le-Petit in northern France on August 1,1744.
		Lamarck was appointed to the professorship of the natural history of insects and worms.
	www.udayton.edu /~hume/Lamarck/lamarck.htm (2488 words)

	Rocky Road: Lamarck
		Where Lamarck's theory fell short was in his supposition that parents could pass on acquired characteristics, e.g., a longer neck developed by a lifetime of stretching to eat from higher branches.
		Lamarck quickly began reorganizing, and among his many new classifications, he split the group of worms into annelids (such as earthworms) and flatworms (such as tapeworms).
		Lamarck's evolutionary theories raised eyebrows, not only for their religious implications, but also because they could be used as a rallying cry by the lower classes; if life could progress and improve, why couldn't they?
	www.strangescience.net /lamarck.htm (632 words)

	EGU - Jean Baptiste Lamarck
		Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, chevalier de, 1744-1829, French naturalist, is noted for his study and classification of invertebrates and for his introduction of evolutionary theories.
		Lamarck's theory of evolution, asserts that all life forms have arisen by a continuous process of gradual modification throughout geologic history.
		Lamarck's theory of evolution was an important forerunner of the work of Charles Darwin.
	www.copernicus.org /EGU/awards/jean_baptiste_lamarck.html (238 words)

	Anthr 201, Winter 2005: Jean Lamarck
		Jean Lamarck, a French nobleman, served as a tutor to the children of the Compte de Buffon, and in the process, learned of Buffon's ideas about evolution, which Lamarck later went on to explicate and popularize.
		Lamarck proposed that two major mechanisms were involved in causing evolution; the Principle of Use and Disuse, and the Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics.
		Lamarck noted that the eldest sons of flsmiths generally had muscular arms, and he believed that this muscularity had been inherited from their muscular fathers.
	anthr201w05.blogspot.com /2005/02/jean-lamarck.html (270 words)

	Nonsense in schoolbooks: 'The Imaginary Lamarck'
		Lamarck did not originate the idea of organic evolution (a concept that dates from ancient times), did not originate any ideas to explain why evolution happens, and did not originate the doctrine that acquired characteristics could be inherited.
		Lamarck, however, tried to explain everything in strictly materialistic terms, with body fluids acting in ways that were vaguely analogous to the movement of air in the atmosphere or the movement of water within the earth.
		Lamarck's idea about giraffes -- that their necks grew longer as they stretched for distant leaves, and that their elongated necks were inherited by their offspring -- has been cited and illustrated in one schoolbook after another, to the point of utter tedium.
	www.textbookleague.org /54marck.htm (2837 words)

	Encyclopedia: Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In 1861, for example, Darwin wrote: Heredity (the adjective is hereditary) is the transfer of characteristics from parent to offspring, either through their genes or through the social institution called inheritance (for example, a title of nobility is passed from individual to individual according to relevant customs and/or laws).
		The theory of the inheritance of acquired traits was formulated by the French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck.
		Lamarckism is an theory of biological evolution proposed by French biologist Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Jean_Baptiste-Lamarck (1620 words)

	AllRefer.com - Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, chevalier de (Biology, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, chevalier de[zhAN bAtEst´ pyer ANtwAn´du mOnA´, shuvAlyA´ du lAmArk´] Pronunciation Key, 1744–1829, French naturalist.
		Lamarck's theory of evolution, or Lamarckism, asserts that all life forms have arisen by a continuous process of gradual modification throughout geologic history.
		Although the latter hypothesis was disputed during Lamarck's lifetime by Cuvier and others and was rejected altogether as the principles of heredity were established, Lamarck's theory of evolution was an important forerunner of the work of Charles Darwin, who recognized a modified influence of environment in evolutionary processes.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/L/Lamarck.html (445 words)

	Evolution: Library: Jean Baptiste Lamarck
		Although the name "Lamarck" is now associated with a discredited view of evolution, the French biologist's notion that organisms inherit the traits acquired during their parents' lifetime had common sense on its side.
		Jean Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829) is one of the best-known early evolutionists.
		Unlike Darwin, Lamarck held that evolution was a constant process of striving toward greater complexity and perfection.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/evolution/library/02/3/l_023_01.html (389 words)

	Lamarck
		If Lamarck was to be shut out by his colleagues as the eighteenth century drew to a close because of his musings about a general physico-chemical system of nature, he would continue to be excluded and derided in the nineteenth century because of his general theories concerning the origin ant development of life.
		Lamarck was clear that the changes induced in any individual organism would be minute, and that, therefore, a great amount of time would be necessary for the species to develop a new characteristic.
		Lamarck was true to the physical and chemical parameters that he had early concluded were the determining ones.
	www.clas.ufl.edu /users/fgregory/Lamarck.htm (5434 words)

	Early Concepts of Evolution: Jean Baptiste Lamarck
		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.
		Lamarck was struck by the similarities of many of the animals he studied, and was impressed too by the burgeoning fossil record.
		Lamarck was mocked and attacked by Cuvier and many other naturalists of his day.
	evolution.berkeley.edu /evolibrary/article/0_0_0/history_09 (713 words)

	MSN Encarta - Lamarck
		Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste (1744-1829), French botanist and invertebrate zoologist who formulated one of the earliest theories of evolution.
		At the same time, he wrote a work on his botanical observations, which French naturalist Georges Louis Buffon arranged to publish in 1779 as Flore françois (Plants of France).
		With his colleagues, French naturalists Georges Cuvier and Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Lamarck accepted the view that animals in nature were arranged on one continuous scala naturae (natural scale).
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761557486/Lamarck.html (536 words)

	Malaspina Great Books - Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829)
		While the ideas involved were not Lamarck's own, he has come to personify pre-Darwinian ideas on evolution.
		Charles Darwin praised Lamarck in the third edition of The Origin of Species for supporting the concept of evolution and bringing it to the attention of others.
		It was not Darwin who killed theories of the inheritance of acquired characteristics, but the discovery of cellular mechanisms of inheritance and genetics -- both ideas that Darwin acknowledged he required to complete his theory.
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	Jean-Baptiste Lamarck - Wikibooks
		Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1774 – 1829) was a French botanist who proposed two ideas that had great impact in the theory of evolution.
		Lamarck did not believe that a species could become extinct.
		The Lamarckian view of evolution is seen as a tendency for a species to reach perfection where it is actually simply adapting to their environment in a single generation.
	en.wikibooks.org /wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Lamarck (494 words)

	Lamarck
		Lamarck is considered the more complete theorist of the early promoters of the Theory of Evolution that Charles Darwin later adopted and greatly expanded.
		Lamarck followed contemporaries in explaining evolution as a directed process and self-adapting means by which species changed their characteristics in response to environmental changes and passed the characteristics to future populations.
		Lamarck is the only major figure in the history of biology whose name has become to all extents and purposes, a term of abuse.
	www.alternativeinsight.com /Lamarck.html (2885 words)

	Learn more about Jean-Baptiste Lamarck in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck (August 1,1744-December 28,1829) was a major 19th century naturalist, who was one of the first to use the term biology in its modern sense.¹
		Lamarck is usually remembered today mainly in connection with a discredited theory of heredity, the "inheritance of acquired traits," but Charles Darwin and others acknowledged him as an early exponent of ideas about evolution.
		This caught the attention of Le Comte de Buffon who arranged for him to be appointed to the Musée d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /j/je/jean_baptiste_lamarck.html (773 words)

	Jean Baptist de Lamarck
		In Lamarck's view organic beings constituted a ladder of life from simplest to complex animals, with humans at the top rung.
		Lamarck did not really explain the origin of this ladder, nor did he acknowledge the possibility of a species becoming extinct.
		Until the late nineteenth century, it was generally believed that characteristics acquired by organisms in response to the conditions of life or as a result of their own habits could be inherited by their descendents, and both Lamarck and Darwin shared this general opinion.
	www.kheper.net /evolution/Lamarck.htm (295 words)

	Jean Antoine Baptiste Pierre de Lamarck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Lamarck soon was known as the Carl Linnaeus of Sweden, and so was assigned to be the caretaker of the Royal Garden.
		Lamarck did not know much about animals and was quite shocked when he was recommended to this field.
		Lamarck used ideas like this to expand and write about how he thought some organs change and shrink then disappear when they are not needed, and giraffes now have long necks after many generations of stretching to reach the leaves on tall trees.
	www.princessleia.com /Lamarck.html (518 words)

	Ockham's Razor - 01/11/1998: Lamarck's Signature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Lamarck is thus one of the founding fathers of modern biology and evolutionary thinking.
		Lamarck assumed that bodily characteristics acquired in the parents by use or disuse of a tissue or organ system reacting to a sustained environmental stimulus could be inherited by the offspring.
		In contrast to Lamarck, Charles Darwin's central idea of 1859 was that parents possessing the best characteristics for survival in that environment would be 'selected' to produce the next generation of offspring.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/science/ockham/stories/s14075.htm (1900 words)

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