Cambridge Library Collection – Darwin, Evolution and Genetics: Zoological Philosophy: An Exposition with Regard to the Natural History of Animals

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Cambridge Library Collection – Darwin, Evolution and Genetics: Zoological Philosophy: An Exposition with Regard to the Natural History of Animals Author: Editor: Hugh Samuel Roger Elliott Format: Paperback / softback First Published: Published By: Cambridge University Press
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Pages: 506 Illustrations and other contents: Worked examples or Exercises Language: English ISBN: 9781108038423 Categories: , , , ,

The great French zoologist Lamarck (1744-1829) was best known for his theory of evolution, called ‘soft inheritance’, whereby organisms pass down acquired characteristics to their offspring. Originally a soldier, Lamarck later studied medicine and biology. His distinguished career included admission to the French Academy of Sciences (1779), and appointments as Royal Botanist (1781) and as professor of zoology at the Musee Nationale d’Histoire Naturelle in 1793. Acknowledged as the premier authority on invertebrate zoology, he is credited with coining the term ‘invertebrates’. In this 1809 work, translated into English in 1914, he outlines his theory that under the pressure of different external circumstances, species can develop variations, and that new species and genera can eventually evolve as a result. Darwin paid tribute to Lamarck as the man who ‘first did the eminent service of arousing attention to the probability of all change … being the result of law’.

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