Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck█
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1744 - 1829
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📝 botanist📝 zoologist📝 naturalist📝 encyclopédistes📝 university teacher
📅 18th century📅 19th century

Observing the infinite varieties of life, I dared to propose that organisms transform themselves through the inheritance of acquired traits, casting the idea of evolution into the bright light of natural law.

Ask me why I classified humble invertebrates, coined ‘biology’ itself, or why a botanist’s eye would linger on the faintest adaptations spun by time and circumstance.

In the flourishing salons and gardens of revolutionary France, I sowed seeds of biological thought that would take generations to blossom.