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

A new study has revived a long-standing controversy over the evolution of living beings between the French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Charles Darwin. The team experimented with rice plants ...

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

In a major challenge to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, Chinese scientists have revived a concept from the 19th century. Published in the prestigious journal Cell, the study shows that ...

Grant, a Francophile, had imbibed the theory of transmutation from Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Etienne Geoffrey St. Hilaire, and soon enough, Darwin was reading Lamarck (although his French was rather ...

This framework encourages us to reconsider the limitations of established intellectual paradigms, such as those put forth by Darwin, Lamarck, Aristotle and Hegel. While their contributions have ...

The collection brings together primary sources from transmutationist thinkers published before Charles Darwin, such as Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Robert Knox, Charles Lyell, Herbert Spencer, and Alfred ...

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 ...

In his elegy, Cuvier mocked Lamarck's suggestion that a "desire" to swim creates webbed feet on an aquatic bird or lengthens the leg of another species that prefers not to get wet. This was nearly 60 ...

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 ...