evolutionary thought

Who Proposed Evolution First?

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Who Proposed Evolution First? The great French naturalist Jean-Baptiste de Monet, chevalier de Lamarck, held the enlightened view of his age that living organisms represent a progression, with humans as the highest form. From this idea he proposed, in the early years of the 19th century, the first broad theory of evolution. When was evolution

Did Darwin Agree With Lamarck?

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Did Darwin Agree With Lamarck? Did Darwin agree with Lamarck? It is a historical fact that, in genetics, Darwin was a Lamarckist. He accepted the inheritance of acquired characters as subsidiary aids in the development of species, and as a possible source of new variation upon which natural selection acted. What did Darwin think about