Melvyn Bragg discusses Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, the 18th century French scientist, and his theory of Natural Selection. Who was he and how far did he pave the way for Darwin? Show more Melvyn Bragg ...

Even though this belief eventually gave way to Darwin's theory of natural selection acting on random variation, Lamarck is credited with helping put evolution on the map and with acknowledging ...

Lamarckism was named after the French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829). It is another theory for why living things change over time, but it takes a different approach to natural selection.

Lamarck's theory cannot account for all the observations made about life on Earth. For instance, his theory implies that all organisms would gradually become complex, and simple organisms disappear.

Darwin's engine, natural selection, had few supporters ... Some of the critics argued, with Jean Baptiste Lamarck, that as creatures used certain body parts in response to a changing environment ...

But Lamarck’s ideas were still an essential stepping stone that inspired Darwin’s ideas of natural selection. Evolution can produce different patterns over time. We can label the three main ...