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Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet Lamarck, chevalier de
Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet Lamarck, chevalier de , 1744-1829, French naturalist. He is noted for his study and classification of invertebrates and for his introduction of evolutionary theories. After varied careers he turned his attention to botany, and recognition of his skill followed u... Read more
acquired characteristics
acquired characteristics modifications produced in an individual plant or animal as a result of mutilation, disease, use and disuse, or any distinctly environmental influence. Some examples are docking of tails, malformation caused by disease, and muscle atrophy. The belief in the inheritability of... Read more
biology
biology the science that deals with living things. It is broadly divided into zoology , the study of animal life, and botany , the study of plant life. Subdivisions of each of these sciences include cytology (the study of cells), histology (the study of tissues), anatomy or morphology, physiology... Read more
zoology
zoology branch of biology concerned with the study of animal life. From earliest times animals have been vitally important to man; cave art demonstrates the practical and mystical significance animals held for prehistoric man. Early efforts to classify animals were based on physical resemblance, ... Read more
heredity
heredity transmission from generation to generation through the process of reproduction in plants and animals of factors which cause the offspring to resemble their parents. That like begets like has been a maxim since ancient times. Although the fact of heredity has been generally known for cent... Read more
cloud
cloud aggregation of minute particles of water or ice suspended in the air. Formation of Clouds Clouds are formed when air containing water vapor is cooled below a critical temperature called the dew point and the resulting moisture condenses into droplets on microscopic dust particles ... Read more
evolution
evolution concept that embodies the belief that existing animals and plants developed by a process of gradual, continuous change from previously existing forms. This theory, also known as descent with modification, constitutes organic evolution. Inorganic evolution, on the other hand, is concerned ... Read more

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Chevalier de Lamarck
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography Chevalier de Lamarck The French naturalist Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck (1744-1829), is best known for his...invertebrate animals. Jean de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck, was born Aug. 1, 1744, at Bazentin...
Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to the Earth Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet...x2013;1829) The French naturalist Lamarck had a significant influence on palaeontology...species and the causes of extinctions. Lamarck's evolutionary theory was expounded in...
Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet Lamarck, chevalier de
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet Lamarck, chevalier de , 1744-1829, French...Blindness and poverty marred his later years. Lamarck's theory of evolution, or Lamarckism...latter hypothesis was disputed during Lamarck's lifetime by Cuvier and others and...
Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de
Book article from: World Encyclopedia Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de (1744–1829) French biologist. His theories of evolution...
Lamarckism
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Science and Religion ...Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de Lamarck was born in Picardy, France, on August...military career before turning to science. Lamarck's interests ranged widely from natural...to the professorship of invertebrates. Lamarck's central concern, reflecting his Enlightenment...
Genetics
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science ...time, French biologist Jean Baptiste de Lamarck (1744 – 1829) strongly believed...that were not used simply faded away. Lamarck also maintained that acquired characteristics...generation to the next. In other words, Lamarck believed that if a giraffe continuously...
Evolution
Encyclopedia entry from: UXL Encyclopedia of Science ...The French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744 – 1829) was the first...the natural environment. According to Lamarck's theory, changes in the environment...inherited by the creatures' offspring, Lamarck said. Such changes could then be regarded...
Determinism, Environmental
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...theoretical hegemony, was based on the evolutionary biology of Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck (1790 – 1869) and Charles Darwin (1809 – 1882). Lamarck believed that characteristics acquired by habits and other behavioral adaptations...
Evolution, Biocultural
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Science and Religion ...grandfather of Charles) and the French biologist Jean Baptiste de Lamarck (1744 – 1829), one encounters ideas about social and cultural progress. Darwin, Lamarck, and others promoted the belief that knowledge and society can be...
evolution
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...ancestral forms. In the early 1800s French biologist Jean Lamarck began to develop evolutionary theory. In the mid-1800s English...each other to be the one to survive. Opposed to the ideas of Lamarck, Darwin argued that each organism was a unique combination...

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Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine De Monet De
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine De Monet...zoology and paleontology, evolution . Lamarck was the youngest of eleven children born...the priesthood ads his future career. Lamarck, at about age eleven, was sent to the...
Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de
Book article from: A Dictionary of Zoology Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet...ancestors of the giraffe had short necks: Lamarck proposed that competition for food encouraged...characteristics did not hold a central position in Lamarck's own writings. His cardinal point was...
Lamarck, JeanBaptistePierreAntoine de Monet, chevalier de
Book article from: A Dictionary of Ecology Lamarck, JeanBaptistePierreAntoine de Monet...characteristics did not hold a central position in Lamarck's own writings. His cardinal point was...provided a mechanism for this evolution. Lamarck explained that this progress of life up...
Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, chevalier de
Book article from: A Dictionary of Plant Sciences Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet...characteristics did not hold a central position in Lamarck's own writings. His cardinal point was...provided a mechanism for this evolution. Lamarck explained that this progress of life up...
Latreille, Pierre-André
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...aide-naturaliste in 1805, serving as demonstrator in Lamarck ’ s course in invertebrate zoology. He eventually took over Lamarck ’ s course in 1820, when Lamarck became completely blind. III health later forced Latreille...
acquired characteristics
Book article from: A Dictionary of Plant Sciences ...according to early evolutionary theorists such as Lamarck . Lamarck further suggested that traits acquired in one generation...environment. The kinds of acquisition envisaged by Lamarck and their heritability are now discredited, although...
Pauly, August
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...organs. Pauly looked back, rather, to Lamarck, discounting the emphasis that had been placed on Lamarck ’ s view of the role of use and...viewpoint that he believed was derived from Lamarck, but which was actually uniquely his own...
Rouillier, Karl Frantsovich
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...Rouillier was guided by the ideas of Lamarck and Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire in his attempt...to its environment. In opposition to Lamarck, Rouillier demonstrated the possibility...improvement, ” and he rejected Lamarck ’ s mechanistic notion of...
Heredity of Acquired Characters
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...which was central to the evolutionism of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, was later very largely rejected. Freud nevertheless accorded...was coupled with two postulates: the first borrowed from Lamarck (transmission of acquired characters), the second from Haeckel...
Deshayes, Gerard Paul
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography ...Naturelle in Paris, occupying the chair of conchology once held by Lamarck, whom he highly regarded. This was Deshayes ’ s...edition, in collaboration with Henri Milne-Edwards, of Lamarck ’ s Histoire des animaux sans vert é res...

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The Formation of Lamarck's Evolutionary Theory
Magazine article from: Transactions of the American Philosophical Society; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...criticism. It might be supposed that choosing Lamarck as the subject was the first step in shifting...recall, intentionally. It was simply that Lamarck was the most famous of Darwin's forerunners...When I then looked through writings about Lamarck, it did not appear that others had noticed...
Don't dismiss Lamarck.(FEEDBACK)(Letter to the editor)
Magazine article from: Science News; 5/9/2009; ; 625 words ; ...that science has allowed Jean-Baptiste Lamarck's contributions to be overshadowed by...by chance mutations and argues toward Lamarck's heritable changes within a lifetime...new most influential biologist will be Lamarck. The turning point was the Human Genome...
THE EVIDENCE FOR LAMARCK.
Magazine article from: Quadrant; 3/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...tried to do just this in our recent book Lamarck's Signature. The proposition that characteristics...this not smack of that discredited fellow Lamarck who Darwin showed was wrong?" and...systems of higher animals points to "Lamarck's signature", identified as the imprint...
Morphological and genetic variation indicate cryptic species within Lamarck's little sea star, Parvulastra (=Patiriella) exigua.
Magazine article from: The Biological Bulletin; 4/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...exigua range. Classification and Biology of Lamarck's Little Sea Star What is Parvulastra exigua? Lamarck (1816) described Asterias exigua as a...species; he concluded that Asterina exigua Lamarck, A. kraussii Gray, and Asteriscus pentagonus...
Stephen Maturin in the Age of Lamarck: a fictional restoration of Cuvier.
Magazine article from: Mosaic (Winnipeg); 3/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...scene of the early nineteenth century. Set during the "Age of Lamarck" and just ahead of Darwin, O'Brian's novels rather surprisingly...intellectual foundation; that O'Brian conspicuously excludes Lamarck from his novels, when he includes many other contemporary...
Restoration of bay scallop (Argopecten irradians (Lamarck)) populations in Florida coastal waters: planting techniques and the growth, mortality and reproductive development of planted scallops.
Magazine article from: Journal of Shellfish Research; 12/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ABSTRACT Bay scallops (Argopecten irradians [Lamarck]) are a culturally and economically important component...transplanted adult bay scallops (Argopecten irradians [Lamarck]) in a North Carolina study (Peterson et al. 1996...
Use of a formulated diet for mussel spat Mytilus galloprovincialis (Lamarck 1819) in a commercial hatchery.
Magazine article from: Journal of Shellfish Research; 8/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...Belgium) in combination with small quantities of microalgae as a complete diet for young mussel seed Mytilus galloprovincialis (Lamarck 1819). Three different food levels were tested: a continuous algae supply over a period of 24 h of 150 cells [micro...
Heterosis between two stocks of the bay scallop, Argopecten irradians irradians Lamarck (1819).
Magazine article from: Journal of Shellfish Research; 12/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ABSTRACT Heterosis between two stocks (A and B) of the bay scallop Argopecten irradians irradians (Lamarck, 1819) was studied by comparing performance in hatching success, larval survival, larval, spat and adult growth of reciprocal...
Filtration and respiration rates of the elongate sunset clam Gari elongata Lamarck 1818 under natural light conditions.
Magazine article from: Journal of Shellfish Research; 4/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...freshwater systems is a relatively new topic. A possible biofilter species is the filter-feeding psammobiid clam Gari elongata Lamarck, a lesser-known bivalve species that burrows in shallow, freshwater to brackish (0-15 [per thousand]) waters in Panay...
Chemical Composition and Biometrical Measurements of the Turkish Sea Urchin (Paracentrotus Lividus, Lamarck, 1816)
Magazine article from: Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...information is available on the biochemical composition of p. lividus specie in Turkey's coastal areas. Paracentrotus lividus (Lamarck) is a very widespread species on Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts, and plays an important role in the development of benthic...