If there is an afterlife, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck has had a roller-coaster of a ride. His life went well enough at first, defined early by honors gained on the battlefield and in the lab. Lamarck was a ...

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 ...

The opponents of the Neo-Darwinian school are as strong in the explanations which they can offer of many of the more complex phenomena of evolution as they are weak when they endeavor to complete ...

Prior to Charles Darwin, many scholars, including Darwin’s grandfather Erasmus Darwin, believed that organisms evolved over time, becoming more complex and better suited to their environment. But the ...

Preface: The Jurassic Park of Nevada -- Introduction: Looking back -- From God to science -- Lamarck to Darwin -- From Darwin to the new (modern) synthesis -- Epigenetics and the newer synthesis -- ...

Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de 1744-1829 ...

This book is not about the fossil discoveries themselves and thus it does not parallel the obligate litany found in texts in human evolution. Instead it chronicles the often strange (to us) ...