David Oldroyd, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002468
1744–1829 French botanist, zoologist and natural historian; early exponent of transformism, of biology as the science of living bodies, and a holistic view of nature.
Keywords: evolution; transformism; biology; inheritance of acquired characteristics; lamarckism; gaia hypothesis; buffon; linnaeus; cuvier
| Further Reading | |
| book Lamarck JB (1984) Zoological Philosophy: An Exposition with Regard to the Natural History of Animals, translated by H Elliot. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. | |
| book Barthélemy-Madaule M (1982) Lamarck the Mythical Precursor: A Study of the Relations between Science and Ideology, translated by MH Shank. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. | |
| book Burkhardt RW (1995) The Spirit of System: Lamarck and Evolutionary Biology. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. | |
| Carozzi AV (1964) Lamarck's theory of the Earth. Isis, 55: 293–307. | |
| book Corsi P (1989) The Age of Lamarck: Evolutionary Theories in France 1790–1830. Berkeley: University of California Press. | |
| Hodge MJS (1971) Lamarck's science of living bodies. British Journal of the History of Science 5: 323–352. | |
| book Landrieu M (1909) Lamarck, le Fondateur du Transformisme: sa Vie, son Oeuvre. Paris: Société Zoologique de France. | |
| book Jordanova LJ (1984) Lamarck. Oxford: Oxford University Press. | |
| book Laurent G (1987) Paléontologie et Évolution en France 1800–1860: de Cuvier–Lamarck à Darwin. Paris: Éditions du Comité des Travaux Historiques et Scientifiques. | |
| Staflau FA (1971) Lamarck: the birth of biology. Taxon 20: 397–442. | |
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