1. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829)
2. Lamarck was one of the first person in his time to explain the evolution process. He believed that a change in the environment would cause a change in the need of organisms living in that environment. In that case it would change in the their behavior. Also, Lamarck stated that all things are heritable. This theory of Lamarck was about, if the environment changed the organisms would adapt to the environment.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/lamarck.html
3. The theory from Lamarck was how the organisms would adapt to the environment and change according to that. Unlike Darwin, he explained it as; that the strongest organism can find resources to adapt to the environment. At the end both of them did get the same conclusion.
4. No, Darwin could not have developed his theories without the influence of Lamarck. He couldn't have because Lamarck was the first person to develop a theory about evolution. Also, Darwin's theory of natural selection depends on that evolution does occur and doesn't stop.
5. The church didn't accept his ideas, or the book Origin of Species but they did accept the book as a scholastic one.
Yes, one of the key points of Lamark's work was that traits are heritable. This may be one of the most important contributions to Darwin's work is this idea that traits are passed on to offspring.
ReplyDeleteYou say: "Unlike Darwin, he explained it as; that the strongest organism can find resources to adapt to the environment."
I would have liked a little more explanation on how and why this was different from Darwin's work. That would have been a good clarificaton to your post.
I agree that Lamark was important to Darwin's work, even if it was just a source of an inaccurate idea that would make Darwin consider other alternatives.
I'm not even sure the church accepted the book as an academic/scholastic source, at least initially. I would have like for you to expand upon the impact on Darwin a bit more.
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