NOUN
- French naturalist who proposed that evolution resulted from the inheritance of acquired characteristics (1744-1829)
How To Use Lamarck In A Sentence
- Spencer was a social philosopher and a disciple of Lamarck.
- On the other hand, Lamarck's teaching, developed by Cope as neo-Lamarckism, meets with continually increasing acceptance. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
- Thus, it is common for terms like “neo-Lamarckism” to be used to discuss models in which the role of natural selection is less dominant. Happy Lamarck Day - The Panda's Thumb
- For rather similar reasons, Darwin reacted against Lamarck's idea that organisms have an inner drive to evolve greater complexity.
- Durand-Greville in _La Nature_, November 24, 1900, that Lamarck was the first to observe the so-called pocky or festoon cloud, or mammato-cirrus cloud, which at rare intervals has been observed since his time. [ Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work
- When Lamarck died he was buried in a pauper's grave (his bones were later dug up and scattered in the catacombs under Paris); Cuvier was given a large tomb in Père Lachaise cemetery. A Conversation with Rebecca Stott about The Coral Thief
- Piaget examined and rejected both the Darwinian and Lamarckian positions, which conclude that for biological reasons, wars are inevitable.
- Of such are adlumia, Canterbury bell, lunaria, ipomopsis, oenothera Lamarckiana; and foxglove, valerian, and some other perennials would better be treated as biennials. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)
- In some textbooks the Lamarckian acquisition of a double membrane of mitochondria is even presented as evidence for engulfment. A critique on the endosymbiotic theory for the origin of mitochondria
- It may seem like a textbook example of Lamarckism, but giraffes who can evolve the most stretch in their necks can stake out an adaptation with their bodies long enough for their genes to catch up.
