Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Facts
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Facts
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| Lamarck was born in Bazentin, France and was the 11th child of a poor but aristocratic family. |
| In the 1750's Lamarck entered the Jesuit college in Amiens. |
| After his father died 1760 Lamarck joined the French army where he showed courage on the battlefield in the Pomeranian War. |
| In 1778 he published his work entitled Flore francoise, which gained him a reputation as a scientist. |
| In 1779 he was admitted to the French Academy of Sciences and in 1781 became a Royal Botanist. |
| In 1788 he received a position Intendant of the Royal Garden and keeper of the herbarium. |
| In 1790 during the French Revolution, he changed the name of the gardens from Jardin du Roi (King's Garden) to Jardin des Plantes (Plant Garden). |
| In 1793 he became curator and professor of invertebrate zoology at the Museum of Natural History |
| May 11, 1800 he presented his ideas on evolution to the Museum national d'histoire naturelle. |
| On 1801 he published his new classification of invertebrates in which he separated the old class,vermes, into echinoderms, arachnids, crustaceans and annelids. |
| He was the first to realize that arachnids were separate from insects. |
| He stressed that the environment causes changes in an organism. |
| He introduced the idea that environment could cause changes in the offspring |
| On 1802 he was the first to use the term biology as it is understood today. |
| He named a large number of species and a several plants and animals have been named for him. |
| He gradually became blind and died in Paris in 1829. |
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