Lamarck, Jean Baptiste (Pierre Antoine) (1744–1829)
French naturalist and pre-Darwinian evolutionist. Lamarck served in the
French army, developed an interest in botany, and became keeper of the royal
garden (1774) and, later, Professor of Invertebrate Zoology at the Museum
of Natural History, Paris (1793). In his Philosophie zoologique (1809),
he proposed that the environment causes organisms to acquire small changes
which are then passed on to their descendants. Related
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