Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution / His Life and Work

CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
I	Birth, Family, Youth, and Military Career	1
II	Student Life and Botanical Career	15
III	Lamarck’s Share in the Reorganization of the Jardin des Plantes and Museum of Natural History	23
IV	Professor of Invertebrate ZoÖlogy at the Museum	32
V	Last Days and Death	51
VI	Position in the History of Science; Opinions of his Contemporaries and Some Later Biologists	64
VII	Lamarck’s Work in Meteorology and Physical Science	79
VIII	Lamarck’s Work in Geology	89
IX	Lamarck the Founder of Invertebrate PalÆontology	124
X	Lamarck’s Opinions on General Physiology and Biology	156
XI	Lamarck as a Botanist	173
XII	Lamarck the ZoÖlogist	180
XIII	The Evolutionary Views of Buffon and of Geoffroy St.Hilaire	198
XIV	The Views of Erasmus Darwin	216
XV	When did Lamarck change his Views regarding the Mutability of Species?	226
XVI	The Steps in the Development of Lamarck’s Views on Evolution before the Publication of his “Philosophie zoologique”	232
XVII	The “Philosophie zoologique”	279
XVIII	Lamarck’s Theory as to the Evolution of Man	357
XIX	Lamarck’s Thoughts on Morals, and on the Relation between Science and Religion	372
XX	The Relations between Lamarckism and Darwinism; Neolamarckism	382
	Bibliography	425

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