Although the name "Lamarck" is now associated with a discredited view of evolution, the French biologist's notion that organisms inherit the traits acquired during their parents' lifetime had common ...
Decades before Darwin, there was a debate over transformism, the idea that species change over time. Two colleagues at the French natural history museum were on opposite sides of issue. They hoped to ...
The two central figures in the first test of evolution. (A) Georges Cuvier (1769-1832) and (B) Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829). Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy ...