Jean Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829) is one of the best-known early evolutionists. Unlike Darwin, Lamarck believed that living things evolved in a continuously upward direction, from dead matter ...

Melvyn Bragg discusses Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, the 18th century French scientist, and his theory of Natural Selection. Who was he and how far did he pave the way for Darwin? Show more Melvyn Bragg ...

Charles Darwin close Charles DarwinAn English naturalist ... vast majority of cases this type of inheritance cannot occur. Lamarck's theory cannot account for all the observations made about ...

Lamarck is the most renowned -- but by no means the only -- proponent of evolution in this era. Darwin born in a conservative era. While born to a family of "freethinkers," Charles Darwin's birth ...

In the 19th century, Charles Darwin and Jean Baptiste Lamarck suggested that giraffes evolved long necks to help them snatch ...

Over two decades after Lamarck’s death, Darwin named him as one of his predecessors, albeit calling his views “erroneous.” The creator of the theory of evolution by natural selection ...

Evolution, by its very nature, is a dynamic process. But just as fluid are humankind’s efforts to understand, describe, and conceptualize that process. Out went Lamarck, in came Darwin. Mendel’s ...