Although the name "Lamarck" is now associated with a discredited view of evolution, the French biologist's notion that organisms inherit the traits acquired during their parents' lifetime had common ...

You might recall from high school biology a scientist by the name of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck. He proposed a mechanism of evolution in which organisms pass on traits acquired during their lifetimes to ...

If there is an afterlife, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck has had a roller-coaster of a ride. His life went well enough at first, defined early by honors gained on the battlefield and in the lab. Lamarck was a ...

Preface: The Jurassic Park of Nevada -- Introduction: Looking back -- From God to science -- Lamarck to Darwin -- From Darwin to the new (modern) synthesis -- Epigenetics and the newer synthesis -- ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the history of science and exploration. The idea of evolution might have taken off sooner if it hadn't been for the ibis ...

Work by Lamarck scholars over the past 20 years calls into question some of the assertions made by Dan Graur and his colleagues in their Book Review (Nature 460, 688–689; 2009). For example, far from ...

Today we know Charles Darwin as the father of the theory of evolution, but Darwin's wasn't the first theory of evolution. Before Darwin, a man named Jean-Baptiste Lamarck had a different idea about ...

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829) formulated the first real theory of biological evolution, in which organisms acquired traits directly from adapting to the environments they faced and passed those ...

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Scientists have found that parents not only pass on traits to their offspring via their DNA but also through the molecular "wrappers" that package the DNA. The research suggests traits acquired by ...