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Philosophie Zoologique, by early French biologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, was published in 1809. In this book, Lamarck developed the first complete theory of organic evolution, arguing that the incredible diversity of living material on the Earth came about through evolution and describing processes of evolutionary change that produced that diversity. Although the specific processes he proposed failed to find experimental confirmation in later years, the book has had considerable impact on the life sciences and social sciences.
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Fifty years before Darwin’s On the Origin of Species was published, Lamarck developed the first complete theory of evolution of living organisms – the foundational “evolutionist thinking” step in biology (Mayr 1982; Hull 1988). Lamarck raised species transformation ideas first in an 1800 lecture and pursued them more extensively in his 1802 book Hydrogéologie (Corsi 1988), but their full development was not...
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Freeberg, T.M. (2019). Philosophie Zoologique. In: Shackelford, T., Weekes-Shackelford, V. (eds) Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_1279-1
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