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Magic & Death Wishes. Biographer Jones, for all his hero worship, belongs to the warts-and-all school, and notes some strange quirks in Freud's character: ¶ Despite his insistence that he was a scientist first and last, Freud clung stubbornly to Lamarck's idea that acquired traits can be inherited-which to serious scientists now makes no more sense than the notion that the earth is flat. ¶ Throughout his life, Freud dabbled with occultism and telepathy. He narrowly avoided publishing acceptance of some weird, spiritistic rigmarole, but he made it plain in private that he believed...
Things were considerably worse at the Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, where, it is reported, Mrs. Siy, the early-shift char, came in to find a femur of the long-jawed dactyl bearing the legend: "Lamarck was here." At the Jefferson Physic Laboratory, a freckle-faced bootblack was captured brining a candle at both ends and rapidly making calculations...
...Charles Darwin did not originate the theory of evolution (it was evolved long before him by his grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, the Frenchman Jean Lamarck, Greek philosophers...
...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...