Chevalier de lamarck biography of william shakespeare
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The great age of the earth will appear greater to man when he understands the origin of living organisms and the reasons for the gradual development and improvement of their organization.
Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, chevalier de Lamarck, often known simply as Lamarck, was a French naturalist. He was a soldier, biologist, and academic, and an early proponent of the idea that biological evolution occurred and proceeded in accordance with natural laws.
Lamarck fought in the Pomeranian War –62 against Prussia, and was awarded a commission for bravery on the battlefield. Posted to Monaco, Lamarck became interested in natural history and resolved to study medicine. He retired from the army after being injured in , and returned to his medical studies. Lamarck developed a particular interest in botany, and later, after he published the three-volume work Flore françoise , he gained membership of the French Academy of Sciences in Lamarck became involved in the Jardin des Plantes and was appointed to the Chair of Botany in When the French National Assembly founded the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in , Lamarck became a professor of zoology.
In , he published Système des animaux sans vertèbres, a major work on the classification of invertebrates, a term which allege
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that state from to He served in the Confederate army during the Civil War, and was sent to Europe as agent of the Confederacy. In he was made professor of political economy at the University of Mississippi, and in was again elected to Congress. President Cleveland made him secretary of the interior during his first term, and in appointed him associate justice of the United States supreme court. Judge Lamar died at Macon, Ga., Jan. 23,
Lamarck (la'mark'), Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, CHEVALIER DE, a French naturalist and evolutionist, was born in Picardy in , and educated for the church at a Jesuit college, which he left at 17 to join the French army then at war with the Germans. On account of an injury he resigned and went to Paris, where he engaged in the study of medicine and botany. In he published the Flore Frangaise, appending a new analytic method of classification. In he was appointed to a post in the Jardin des Plantes, and remained for 25 years as professor of invertebrate zoology. Here, after a time, he was joined by Cuvier and St. Hilaire. In he published his famous Philosophic Zoologique, in which he supported the doctrine that all kinds of animals, including man, are derived from other species. These views