When1: 1778
When2: 1822
Who: Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck [Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste de]
What: anatomist
Where: Paris, France
works\ French Flora [1778]; Animal Philosophy [1809]; Natural History of the Invertebrates [1815 to 1822]
Detail: He lived 1744 to 1829 and studied invertebrate paleontology and invertebrate classification. Environment forces animals to acquire new characteristics through learning. What individual experience learns, offspring can inherit {Lamarckianism, Lamarck}. However, Lamarckianism is only true for minor specialized cellular transmittance.
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