In the second half of the nineteenth century, Darwin perpetuated the claim that his theory owed nothing to Lamarck's “nonsense”. Later, Lamarck's name was damaged further by its association ...

Besides Erasmus Darwin and Jean Baptiste Lamarck, a host of other influential evolutionists, including Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Robert Chambers, Baden Powell, Herbert Spencer and Alfred ...

Lamarck was a proponent of evolution many decades before Darwin, enjoying a briefly relevant career which saw him co-invent the evolutionary tree and even help coin the term "biology." But by the ...

Lamarck was a proponent of evolution many decades before Darwin, enjoying a briefly relevant career which saw him co-invent the evolutionary tree and even help coin the term "biology." But by the ...

Chinese research team’s investigation into cold-tolerant rice varieties revives largely-forgotten 19th century ‘giraffe theory’.

an expert on marine life whose intellectual passion captivates Darwin. "He one day ... burst forth in high admiration of Lamarck and his views on evolution. I listened in silent astonishment ...

Lamarck's theory of acquired characteristics revisited through epigenetics in a groundbreaking study on cold-adapted rice ...

Characteristically, Darwin gave credit to Wallace, and also to Malthus, Lamarck and even the anonymous "Mr. Vestiges." Reading the book, which Darwin sent to him in New Guinea, Wallace was plainly ...

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Packard justly calls the founder of biological evolution. Every one knows something of Lamarck, but it is safe to say that few are acquainted with the facts of his personal life or the breadth and ...

The findings proved that nature's inheritance rules were far more fluid than Darwin imagined, and suggested "a need to rethink evolutionary theory", according to the researchers. Lamarck proposed ...