jean baptiste de lamarck

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Noun jean baptiste de lamarck has 1 sense

Lamarck, Jean Baptiste de Lamarck, Chevalier de Lamarck - French naturalist who proposed that evolution resulted from the inheritance of acquired characteristics (1744-1829)
--₁ is a kind of naturalist, natural scientist

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Jean Baptiste de Lamarck

Definition: Jean Baptiste de Lamarck was a French biologist who proposed the first cohesive theory of evolution based on inheritance of acquired characteristics.

Part of Speech: Proper noun

Sense 1:

Usage: Jean Baptiste de Lamarck was a prominent biologist during the 19th century.

Example sentence 1: The contributions made by Jean Baptiste de Lamarck laid the foundation for evolutionary biology.

Example sentence 2: Jean Baptiste de Lamarck's theory of evolution was later superseded by Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection.

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