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 ...

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

What Darwin discovered on those islands was ... you'll now at least be able to tell which side won -- and which will be the Jean-Baptiste Lamarck to an all-new generation.

Alas, poor Darwin. By all rights ... for it reeks of the discredited theory of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744–1829). The French naturalist argued that the reason giraffes have long necks, for ...

If you took a high school biology class, you’re probably familiar with Jean-Baptiste Lamarck’s theory ... In textbooks Lamarck’s theory is often presented as a rival to Charles Darwin’s theory of ...

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 ...

Melvyn Bragg discusses Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, the 18th century French scientist, and his theory of Natural Selection. Who was he and how far did he pave the way for Darwin? Show more Melvyn Bragg ...

Besides Erasmus Darwin and Jean Baptiste Lamarck, a host of other influential evolutionists, including Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Robert Chambers, Baden Powell, Herbert Spencer and Alfred ...

Charles Darwin was born in Shropshire, England, the fifth child of a prosperous physician. It was 1809; the intermittently mad George III ruled Britain, in spells; Jean-Baptiste Lamarck had ...

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 ...