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- Title
The Impact of Lamarck's Theory of Evolution Before Darwin's Theory.
- Authors
Galera, Andrés
- Abstract
This paper analyzes the impact that Lamarckian evolutionary theory had in the scientific community during the period between the advent of Zoological Philosophy and the publication Origin of Species. During these 50 years Lamarck's model was a well known theory and it was discussed by the scientific community as a hypothesis to explain the changing nature of the fossil record throughout the history of Earth. Lamarck's transmutation theory established the foundation of an evolutionary model introducing a new way to research in nature. Darwin's selectionist theory was proposed in 1859 to explain the origin of species within this epistemological process. In this context, Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology and Auguste Comte's Cours de Philosophie Positive appear as two major works for the dissemination of Lamarck's evolutionary ideology after the death of the French naturalist in 1829.
- Subjects
LAMARCKIANISM; EVOLUTIONARY theories; BIOLOGICAL evolution; TRANSMUTATION of animals; ZOOLOGICAL Philosophy: An Exposition With Regard to the Natural History of Animals (Book); LYELL, Charles, Sir, 1797-1875; COMTE, Auguste, 1798-1857
- Publication
Journal of the History of Biology, 2017, Vol 50, Issue 1, p53
- ISSN
0022-5010
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10739-015-9432-5