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 ...

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 ...

You might recall from high school biology a scientist by the name of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck. He proposed a mechanism of evolution in which organisms pass on traits acquired during their lifetimes to ...

Ever wonder how in the world flamingoes grow into pink adults from white chicks? Why your grandparents buy bags of lime to grow their signature pink hydrangeas? Why are most calico cats female? Why do ...

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 ...

Decades before Darwin, there was a debate over transformism, the idea that species change over time. Two colleagues at the French natural history museum were on opposite sides of issue. They hoped to ...

In the mid-20th century, under Joseph Stalin's Soviet regime in Russia, Trofim Lysenko pushed an ideological system of agriculture that, among many questionable planks, contended that various crop ...

The Tangled Tree: A radical new history of life by David Quammen, William Collins Lamarck’s Revenge: How epigenetics is revolutionizing our understanding of evolution’s past and present by Peter Ward, ...

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 -- ...

Les travaux du naturaliste Jean-Baptiste Lamarck révèlent l'apport essentiel de la figure de l'antithèse dans l'argumentation scientifique. Employée de manière systématique dans la méthode ...

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