Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution

“Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution” is the biography of Jean-Baptiste-Chevalier de Lamarck. Lamarck was a French naturalist, biologist, academic, and soldier. He was an early proponent of the idea that biological evolution occurred and proceeded in accordance with natural laws. The modern era generally remembers Lamarck for a theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics, called Lamarckism (inaccurately named after him), soft inheritance, or use/disuse theory. He is also remembered, at least in malacology, as a taxonomist of considerable stature.