Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck was a pioneering French naturalist best known for proposing an early theory of evolution based on the inheritance of acquired characteristics.
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| instanceOf |
French person
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biologist → botanist → human → naturalist → zoologist → |
| birthDate |
1744-08-01
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| birthPlace |
Bazentin, Picardy, France
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| burialPlace |
Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris (grave later lost)
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| countryOfCitizenship |
France
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| deathDate |
1829-12-18
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| deathPlace |
Paris, France
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| employer |
Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle
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| familyName |
Lamarck
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| fieldOfWork |
botany
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evolutionary biology → invertebrate zoology → taxonomy → |
| fullName |
Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, chevalier de Lamarck
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| gender |
male
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| givenName |
Jean-Baptiste
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| influenced |
Charles Darwin
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Ernst Haeckel → |
| knownFor |
classification of invertebrate animals
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coining the term "invertebrates" → concept of use and disuse of organs → early theory of evolution → theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics → |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
French
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| militaryService |
French Army
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| movement |
pre-Darwinian evolutionary thought
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| name |
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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| notableWork |
Flore française
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Philosophie zoologique → Système des animaux sans vertèbres → |
| occupation |
academic
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biologist → botanist → naturalist → zoologist → |
| positionHeld |
professor of "insects, worms and microscopic animals" at the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle
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professor of invertebrate zoology → |
| proposedConcept |
adaptation through use and disuse of organs
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gradual transformation of species over time → |
| publicationDateOfWork |
1801 (Système des animaux sans vertèbres)
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1809 (Philosophie zoologique) → |
| religion |
Roman Catholicism
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| theory |
inheritance of acquired characteristics
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transformism → |
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Annelida
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Arachnida → |
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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
("Lamarck")
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familyName |
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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
("Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, chevalier de Lamarck")
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fullName |
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Lamarckism
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Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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influenced |
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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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Lamarckism
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Annelida
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taxonAuthor |