Philosophie zoologique

an exposition with regard to the natural history of animals ...

by Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de Lamarck

1809 eng

Jean Baptiste Lamarck is remembered primarily as a pre-Darwinian evolutionist who proposed the inheritance of acquired characters to explain evolutionary change. But this narrow view of Lamarck does not do justice to his conception of organic change, nor does it indicate how Lamarck's views on organ…