Lamarck


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French naturalist who proposed that evolution resulted from the inheritance of acquired characteristics (1744-1829)

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Botanists soon rendered subjective decisions regarding Lamarck's concept of a polyspecific genus.
Histological examination of the gonads of Paracentrotus lividus (Lamarck, 1816) from the Southern Adriatic coast.
Political Descent argues that Thomas Malthus, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, and especially Darwin himself, were well aware of the political, moral, and social implications of evolutionary theory.
2); length of 2nd and 3rd metasomal tergites of 2 0.4 times total length of metasoma Proantrusa Tobias, 1998 3'.-- Frons without small median tooth in front of anterior ocellus; length of 2nd and 3rd metasomal tergites of 2 0.6-0.8 times total length of metasoma Trachionus Haliday, 1833 Syn.: Aenone Haliday, 1838 (not Lamarck, 1818); Oenone Haliday, 1839 (not Lamarck, 1818); Symphya Foerster, 1863; Anarmus Ruthe in Brischke, 1882; Planiricus Perepechayenko, 2000 (subgenus).
North Pacific species of the genus Solemya Lamarck, 1818 (Bivalvia, Solemyidae) with notes on Acharax johnsoni (Dall, 1801).
Nearly a century before Darwin published "On the Origin of Species," French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck proposed that life was not a static array of created plants and animals but a dynamic process, with species continually evolving into other species.
Instead, we were taught that this theory, linked in the text to the French biologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, was inherently silly and served as proof against evolution.
Appendices look at how the field differs from the theories of Lamarck and Lysenko, and the mechanics of how the environment can change molecules and genes in living creatures in ways that can be inherited.
Staghorn coral Acropora cervicornis (Lamarck, 1816), and elkhorn coral Acropora palmata (Lamarck, 1816), in particular, have undergone a precipitous decline that has culminated in these species being listed as threatened under the U.S.
It was filed by former Biliran Congressman Glenn Chong and taxpayers Manuelito Luna, Aristarchus Lamarck DC Luna and the Samahang Magbabasura Inc., and also sought a preliminary injunction to stop government agencies from using the national budget pending the resolution of the case.
All of these locations have recently been invaded by Tarebia granifera (Lamarck, 1822), an alien gastropod that can reach densities of over 20000 ind.[m.sup.-2], displace other species, and become a dominant component of shallow water invertebrate assemblages (Miranda et al.