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Lamarck, Darwin and Wallace

Dec 30, 2015

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Zann Gill

in Alfred Russel Wallace, Baldwin Effect, Blog, Charles Darwin, collaborative intelligence, cross-category, design, ecosystem, evolution, Jean Baptiste Lamarck, Origin of Species, pattern recognition, struggle for existence, What Daedalus told Darwin

Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, later Chevalier de Lamarck (1744 – 1829) was a distinguished professor at the Museum of Natural History in Paris. His advance over Aristotle’s static Scala Natura, or Great Chain of Being, was to introduce the dynamic concept that life’s behavior propels the ongoing evolution of species in a theory he…