Prior to Charles Darwin, many scholars, including Darwin’s grandfather Erasmus Darwin, believed that organisms evolved over time, becoming more complex and better suited to their environment. But the ...
Although the name "Lamarck" is now associated with a discredited view of evolution, the French biologist's notion that organisms inherit the traits acquired during their parents' lifetime had common ...
Preface: The Jurassic Park of Nevada -- Introduction: Looking back -- From God to science -- Lamarck to Darwin -- From Darwin to the new (modern) synthesis -- Epigenetics and the newer synthesis -- ...
A useful reminder for evolutionary biologists and science journalists, posted to the Evoldir list by Joel Parker: I have noticed many evolutionary biologists making an embarrassing mistake of falsely ...
"But what we're really doing is fleshing out Darwin's idea in ever greater detail." Perhaps the most surprising discovery in recent years has to do with one of Darwin's predecessors in evolutionary ...
Decades before Darwin, there was a debate over transformism, the idea that species change over time. Two colleagues at the French natural history museum were on opposite sides of issue. They hoped to ...
Although the name "Lamarck" is now associated with a discredited view of evolution, the French biologist's notion that organisms inherit the traits acquired during their parents' lifetime had common ...
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