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

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