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Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution: His Life and Work

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Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution: His Life and Work

Alpheus Spring Packard

483 pages~9 hr 37 min read117 chapters$4.99
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Before Darwin there was Lamarck, the soldier turned botanist who first argued that species change over time. Alpheus Packard follows him from youth and military career into the reorganized Jardin des Plantes and the theory that made and unmade his name. A full life of a misunderstood pioneer. Restore the man who dared to say life evolves.

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117 chapters

  1. 1LAMARCK
  2. 2LAMARCK THE FOUNDER OF EVOLUTION HIS LIFE AND WORK
  3. 3PREFACE
  4. 4CONTENTS
  5. 5LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  6. 6Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution. His Life and Work
  7. 7CHAPTER I BIRTH, FAMILY, YOUTH, AND MILITARY CAREER
  8. 8FOOTNOTES:
  9. 9CHAPTER II STUDENT LIFE AND BOTANICAL CAREER
  10. 10FOOTNOTES:
  11. 11CHAPTER III LAMARCK’S SHARE IN THE REORGANIZATION OF THE JARDIN DES PLANTES AND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
  12. 12FOOTNOTES:
  13. 13CHAPTER IV PROFESSOR OF INVERTEBRATE ZOÖLOGY AT THE MUSEUM
  14. 14FOOTNOTES:
  15. 15CHAPTER V LAST DAYS AND DEATH
  16. 16FOOTNOTES:
  17. 17CHAPTER VI POSITION IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE; OPINIONS OF HIS CONTEMPORARIES AND SOME LATER BIOLOGISTS
  18. 18FOOTNOTES:

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