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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck's Quest for Natural Species

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 September 2008

Alexandre Métraux
Affiliation:
Otto-Selz Institute University of Mannheim

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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744–1829) was a prolific writer, a multifaceted naturalist, and a zoologist by second profession. Throughout his adult life he lived up to his passion of politely contributing to the advancement of natural philosophy by publishing more than 30,000 pages, probably too much for even the most scrupulous (and persevering) historians of science who seek to reconstruct his theories and to shed some light on the role he played in late eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century biology.

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Lamarck
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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