Jean Baptiste Lamarck argued for a very different view of evolution than Darwin's. Lamarck believed that simple life forms continually came into existence from dead matter and continually became ...

Object Details Author Butler, Samuel 1835-1902 Subject Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc comte de 1707-1788 Darwin, Erasmus 1731-1802 Darwin, Charles 1809-1882 Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de ...

In the years of the post-Darwinian debate, many American naturalists invoked the name of Lamarck to signal their belief in a purposive and anti-Darwinian view of evolution. Yet Weismann's theory of ...