Lamarck brief biography of mahatma

Biography

EUGENE M. MCCARTHY, PHD

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829).

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French naturalist and soldier. Chief founder of the field of invertebratepaleontology. Early evolutionary theorist.

Lamarck was born on August 1, 1744 in the small town of Bazentin in northern France, the scion of an impoverished aristocratic family. He served in the military during the Seven Years War and, at the age of only 17, was awarded a commission for bravery in recognition of his actions on the battlefield.

It was at this point that Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet (Lamarck’s given name) became the Chevalier de Lamarck, or Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, the name by which he was thereafter known.

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Later, when Lamarck retired injured, he took up a new career in natural history. He first studied botany under the naturalist Bernard de Jussieu. The eventual product of this ten-year period of research was Lamarck’s Flore françoise (1778), a three- Jean-Baptiste Lamarck - Biography - Famous Biologists QENI