Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

French naturalist (1744-1829)

thumb|upright=1.8|Jean-Baptiste Lamarck|Lamarck argued, as part of his theory of [[heredity, that a blacksmith's sons inherit the strong muscles the blacksmith acquires from his work.]] Lamarckism, also known as Lamarckian inheritance or neo-Lamarckism, is the notion that an organism can pass on to its offspring physical characteristics that the parent organism acquired through use or disuse during its lifetime. It is also called the inheritance of acquired characteristics or more recently soft inheritance. The idea is named after the French zoologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744–1829), who inc

lunar impact crater

Book by Lamarck

species of fish

Lamarckia is a genus of plants in the grass family native to the Old World Dry Belt, on the Mediterranean Region, the Arabian Peninsula, East Africa and South Asia. It has a single species, Lamarckia aurea, known colloquially as the '''golden dog's-tail or goldentop grass'''.

Island in Adélie Land, Antarctica

species of mollusc

unresolved name

species of plant