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 ...

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 ...

Lamarck illustrated his theory using the example ... is said to have come into existence in this manner over generations. Darwin was, on the other hand, convinced that such features are the ...

One of the most respected ideas prior to Darwin’s theory of natural selection was that of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, who argued for the inheritance of acquired characteristics. This was the idea ...

Darwin was born in 1809 in Shrewsbury ... The prevailing theories of the time were by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (among others). Lamarck thought that fluids in an organ inherited ...

He was wrong, just as Lamarck was incorrect about the mechanics of heredity. Darwin’s predecessor The evidence from the mummies wasn’t enough to squash the debate over transformism ...

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 ...

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

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 ...