Jean Baptiste Lamarck argued for a very different view of evolution than Darwin's. Lamarck believed that simple life forms continually came into existence from dead matter and continually became ...

Lamarck was a proponent of evolution many decades before Darwin, enjoying a briefly relevant career which saw him co-invent the evolutionary tree and even help coin the term "biology." ...

Darwin’s theory of natural selection was different than Lamarck’s. Instead of claiming that life experiences would influence subsequent generations, Darwin’s theory was that there somehow ...

Gregor Mendel’s research on heredity provided evidence of Darwin’s hypothesis by discovering that heritable traits were passed along through functional units called genes. In reality, it is not just ...

In this case, Cuvier was bashing Lamarck's theory of transformism. Lamarck thought that over a long period of time, the simplest animals became more complex and transformed into entirely new species.

A frenemy and predecessor of Charles Darwin, Lamarck first speculated on the idea of epigenetics with his theory of acquired inheritance. His example took a freak of nature — long giraffe necks — and ...

Charles Darwin is, perhaps, one of the most famous scientists. Many colloquial phrases mention “Darwinism” and “survival of the fittest” (though, these are almost always incorrectly used). And today, ...

Ironically, the earliest use of the tree analogy diagram to depict evolution was published in the year of Darwin's birth (1809) by Lamarck in his book Philosophie Zoologique (see pg 463, ).

Chinese researchers recently uncovered molecular evidence supporting Lamarckism—a long-debated theory from the early 19th century that acquired characteristics can be inherited.