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Lamarck's scientific theories were largely ignored or attacked during his lifetime; Lamarck never won the acceptance and esteem of his colleagues Buffon and Cuvier, and he died in poverty and obscurity. Today, the name of Lamarck is associated merely with a discredited theory of heredity, the "inheritance of acquired traits." However, Charles Darwin, Lyell, Haeckel, and other early evolutionists acknowledged him as a great zoologist and as a forerunner of evolution.

Resources in This Category

• In Our Time: Lamarck and Natural Selection

  http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/inourtime/inourtime_20031226.shtml
  BBC Radio 4 discussion of Lamark's important contribution to the development of evolutionary theory.

• Jean Baptiste Lamarck (1744 - 1829)

  http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/lamarck.html
  Provides information and biographical details of this biologist whose scientific theories were largely ignored or attacked during his lifetime.

 

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