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La·marck
(lə-märk′, lä-), Chevalier Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de 1744-1829. French naturalist who developed an evolutionary theory that is now largely discredited.
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Lamarck
(French lamark)n
(Biography) Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet (ʒɑ̃ batist pjɛr ɑ̃twan də mɔnɛ), Chevalier de Lamarck. 1744–1829, French naturalist. He outlined his theory of organic evolution (Lamarckism) in Philosophie Zoologique (1809)
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La•marck
(ləˈmɑrk, lɑ-)n.
Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de, 1744–1829, French naturalist.
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| Noun | 1. | Lamarck - French naturalist who proposed that evolution resulted from the inheritance of acquired characteristics (1744-1829) |
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Lamarck - French naturalist who proposed that evolution resulted from the inheritance of acquired characteristics (1744-1829)