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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

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J ean-Baptiste Lamarck, a French naturalist was an early proponent of the idea of evolution. His full name was Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck. However for the sake of simplicity people addressed this scientist as Jean-Baptiste Lamarck or simply Lamarck. His theory of evolution is popularly known as Lamarckism. He was also one of the first to use the term biology in its modern sense and coined the term invertebrates. Lamarck was born on 1 August 1744 at Bazentin-le-Petit, Picardie in France into a poverty-stricken family – the title C hevalier was used to depict the occupation his flock. He was the youngest of eleven children in a family with a centuries-old tradition of military service; his father and a number of his brothers were soldiers. He joined the army to serve his country as an army man prior to getting involved in natural history and writing about flora of France in three volumes with the title Flore française . This made Lamarck more ...
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Charles Darwin

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    Charles Darwin is recognized as one of the greatest British scientists who ever lived. He can be rightly termed a revolutionary, because he transformed the understanding of the contemporary people on the living world. Darwin was born in 1809 at Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England. His father was a doctor, and his mother was the daughter of the very popular potter Josiah Wedgwood. Darwin’s mother died when he was just at his 8 years of age, and virtually raised by his elder sisters. He used to be fascinated by the natural world from a very tender age. Gradually he became an avid reader of books on nature and devoted his spare time to exploring the fields and woodlands in his locality for collecting specimens of plants and insects. Darwin was enrolled in medical school in the University of Edinburgh, Scotland in 1825, where he came to see surgery on a baby. During that time surgeries had to be carried out without the use of any anesthetic or antiseptic, resulting ...
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