Definition of Jean Baptiste de Lamarck

1. Noun. French naturalist who proposed that evolution resulted from the inheritance of acquired characteristics (1744-1829).

Exact synonyms: Chevalier De Lamarck, Lamarck
Generic synonyms: Natural Scientist, Naturalist
Derivative terms: Lamarckian

Lexicographical Neighbors of Jean Baptiste De Lamarck

Jean-Frederic Joliot
Jean-Frederic Joliot-Curie
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac
Jean-Paul Sartre
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Jean Anouilh
Jean Antoine Watteau
Jean Arp
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
Jean Baptiste Camille Corot
Jean Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur
Jean Baptiste Joseph Fourier
Jean Baptiste Lully
Jean Baptiste Racine
Jean Baptiste de Lamarck (current term)
Jean Bernard Leon Foucault
Jean Bernoulli
Jean Caulvin
Jean Cauvin
Jean Chauvin
Jean Cocteau
Jean Edouard Vuillard
Jean Francois Champollion
Jean Francois Millet
Jean Genet
Jean Giraudoux
Jean Harlow
Jean Honore Fragonard
Jean Laffite

Literary usage of Jean Baptiste de Lamarck

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Social Adaptation: A Study in the Development of the Doctrine of Adaptation by Lucius Moody Bristol (1915)
"Jean Baptiste de Lamarck (1744-1829) Use-Inheritance Pemberton in his Path of Evolution thus characterizes the work of Lamarck: — He rendered to mankind the ..."

2. A History of Science by Henry Smith Williams, Edward Huntington Williams (1904)
"In a similar way, through individual effort and transmitted tendency, all the diversified organs of all Jean Baptiste de Lamarck ..."

3. A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year by Edwin Emerson, Georg Gottfried Gervinus, Maurice Magnus (1901)
"Jean Baptiste de Lamarck, a forerunner of Charles Lamarck Darwin died in this year. As early as 1801 Lamarck had outlined his ideas of the transmutation of ..."

4. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1906)
"... respective writers of these books—Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck and John Playfair—some curious parallels may be remarked. They were both intended by their ..."

5. The Scrap Book (1906)
"Jean Baptiste de Lamarck, French scientist; Karl von Schlegel, German scholar; and Thomas Young and Sir Humphry Davy, English scientists, died. ..."

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