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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Biography
EUGENE M. MCCARTHY, PHD
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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck ().
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French naturalist and soldier. Chief founder of the field of invertebratepaleontology. Early evolutionary theorist.
Lamarck was born on August 1, in the small town of Bazentin in northern France, the scion of an impoverished aristocratic family.
He served in the military during the Seven Years War and, at the age of only 17, was awarded a commission for bravery in recognition of his actions on the battlefield. It was at this point that Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet (Lamarck’s given name) became the Chevalier de Lamarck, or Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, the name by which he was thereafter known.
Jean-baptiste lamarck contribution to evolutionLater, when Lamarck retired injured, he took up a new career in natural history. He first studied botany under the naturalist Bernard de Jussieu. The eventual product of this ten-year period of research was Lamarck’s Flore françoise (), a three-volume work on the plant li
