Word: lamarck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Niel of Stanford; Ross Granville Harrison of Yale; Hugo Theorell of the University of Stockholm; Olenus Lee Sponsler of the University of California at Los Angeles; Lewis Victor Heilbrunn of the University of Pennsylvania; John Desmond Bernal of the University of London. **Including Grew, Malpighi, Leuwenhoek, Wolff, Mirbel, Lamarck, Dutrochet, Meyen, von Mohl, Brown, Purldnje, Brogniart, Braur, Turpin, Dumortier...
...first-class work that was given the James Tait Black prize for the best biography of its year. He also wrote two valuable books on Sicily. Butler took issue with Darwin on no trivial point of evolutionary dogma. He was the first to note that the Abbé Lamarck had long before defined the principle of evolution, and without resorting to a theory of natural selection-the weakest element of Darwin's case...
...small voice of comparative anatomy and paleontology, the facts plainly indicate that the skeletons of both the horse and his rider, however much they differ in details, are but divergent modifications of the old grappling bridge type. . . . This elementary but far-reaching fact, which was well understood by Buffon, Lamarck, Darwin and all later evolutionists, is to this day ignored by the vast majority of mankind, including the writers of many textbooks on human anatomy...
...added their heretical testimony. With Buffon and Reaumur, 18th Century France temporarily captured the blue ribbon of Science. Then Sweden's Linnaeus revolutionized the study of nature by his field-trip to Lapland, gave the world the Linnaean system, the first great attempt to classify plants. The unconsidered Lamarck, with his theory of ''the inheritance of acquired characteristics," was the forerunner of the evolutionists...
...Henri Bergson's sense of motion and change led to the élan vital theory which presents a mysterious, inward, upsurging force as the driving influence of evolution. Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet Lamarck propagated a theory that acquired characteristics could be inherited. Most modern students of evolution take little stock in either Bergsonism or Lamarckism. Yet last week Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, famed anthropologist of the Smithsonian Institution, presented a view which seemed to flirt with both. Whereas primitive organisms are bundles of inherited reaction patterns and higher animals are resultants of heredity plus environment, Dr. Hrdlicka believes...