Lamarck

[ luh-mahrk; French la-mark ]

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Jean Bap·tiste Pierre An·toine de Mo·net de [zhah, n, b, a, -, teest, pye, r, ah, n, -, twan, d, uh, maw-, ne, d, uh], 1744–1829, French naturalist: pioneer in the field of comparative anatomy.

Lamarck

/ lamark /

LamarckJean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet17441829MFrenchSCIENCE: naturalist Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet (ʒɑ̃ batist pjɛr ɑ̃twan də mɔnɛ), Chevalier de Lamarck. 1744–1829, French naturalist. He outlined his theory of organic evolution (Lamarckism) in Philosophie Zoologique (1809)

Lamarck

/ lə-märk′,lä- /

French naturalist who introduced the taxonomic distinction between vertebrates and invertebrates. His theory that the acquired characteristics of a species could be inherited by later generations was a forerunner to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, although it was eventually discredited.

This specimen, presented to the Museum, agrees very well with the short description given by Lamarck of this species.

This shell agrees very well with the description of Lamarck, except that the whole edge of the mouth is of a fine rose-red colour.

Lamarck describes this shell from a specimen found by Peron.

Influenced by these motives, both Cuvier and Lamarck have considered them as forming two classes separate from insects.

The manifest error of Lamarck was an egregious exaggeration of certain well-known truths.

April 18, 2024petrichor

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