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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Quotes

d. 1829 France

Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck (1 August 1744 – 18 December 1829), often known simply as Lamarck, was a French naturalist. He was a soldier, biologist, academic, and an early proponent of the idea that evolution occurred and proceeded in accordance with natural laws.

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Also known as: Lamarck

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What nature does in the course of long periods we do every day when we suddenly change the environment in which some species of living plant is situated.

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