Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. His Life and WorkBy A. S. Packard
Length12h 37m
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In *Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution*, A. S. Packard presents a sustained historical and scientific rehabilitation of Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck. Combining biography, intellectual history, and exposition of natural philosophy, the book traces Lamarck's transformation from botanist and zoologist into a theorist of organic change. Packard explains the principles of use and disuse, acquired characters, environmental influence, and progressive adaptation, while situating them within the debates that preceded and followed Darwin. Written in the sober, evidentiary style of late-nineteenth-century natural history, the work is both a scholarly study and an intervention in the contested history of evolution, challenging accounts that reduce Lamarck to a discredited precursor. Alpheus Spring Packard was an American zoologist, paleontologist, and professor whose research ranged across entomology, comparative anatomy, embryology, and evolution. His extensive study of invertebrate life and commitment to evolutionary explanation led him to regard Lamarck as a serious scientific thinker rather than a historical curiosity. Writing during an era when Darwinism, neo-Lamarckism, and hereditarian theories competed for authority, Packard sought to recover the empirical and philosophical foundations of Lamarck's system and to demonstrate its continuing explanatory value. This book will reward readers interested in the history of evolutionary biology, the development of scientific ideas, and the intellectual relationship between Lamarck and Darwin. It is especially valuable for those who wish to encounter Lamarck's arguments through an informed defender, while also appreciating how scientific reputations are shaped by later debates. Packard's work remains a revealing document of evolutionary thought in transition.
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- A succinct Introduction situates the work's timeless appeal and themes.
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GenreScience and Nature
Length12 hrs 37 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateSep 16, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Our Common Insects
2Introduction
3Synopsis
4Historical Context
5PREFACE
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6Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution. His Life and Work
7CHAPTER I BIRTH, FAMILY, YOUTH, AND MILITARY CAREER
8CHAPTER II STUDENT LIFE AND BOTANICAL CAREER
9CHAPTER III LAMARCK’S SHARE IN THE REORGANIZATION OF THE JARDIN DES PLANTES AND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY
10CHAPTER IV PROFESSOR OF INVERTEBRATE ZOÖLOGY AT THE MUSEUM
11CHAPTER V LAST DAYS AND DEATH
12CHAPTER VI POSITION IN THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE; OPINIONS OF HIS CONTEMPORARIES AND SOME LATER BIOLOGISTS
13CHAPTER VII LAMARCK’S WORK IN METEOROLOGY AND PHYSICAL SCIENCE
14CHAPTER VIII LAMARCK’S WORK IN GEOLOGY
15Lamarck’s Contributions to Physical Geology; his Theory of the Earth.
16CHAPTER IX LAMARCK THE FOUNDER OF INVERTEBRATE PALÆONTOLOGY
17CHAPTER X LAMARCK’S OPINIONS ON GENERAL PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOLOGY
18CHAPTER XI LAMARCK AS A BOTANIST
19CHAPTER XII LAMARCK THE ZOÖLOGIST
20TABLEAU Servant à montrer l’origine des differens animaux.
21CHAPTER XIII THE EVOLUTIONARY VIEWS OF BUFFON AND OF GEOFFROY ST. HILAIRE
22Étienne Geoffroy St.Hilaire.
23CHAPTER XIV THE VIEWS OF ERASMUS DARWIN
24CHAPTER XV WHEN DID LAMARCK CHANGE HIS VIEWS REGARDING THE MUTABILITY OF SPECIES?
25CHAPTER XVI THE STEPS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF LAMARCK’S VIEWS ON EVOLUTION BEFORE THE PUBLICATION OF HIS PHILOSOPHIE ZOOLOGIQUE
26I. From the Système des Animaux sans Vertèbres (1801) .
27II. Recherches sur l’Organisation des Corps vivans, 1802 (Opening Discourse) .
28Modification of the organization from one end to the other of the animal chain.
29Appendix (p.141) .
30III. Lamarck’s Views on Species, as published in 1803.
31IV. Lamarck’s Views as published in 1806.
32CHAPTER XVII THE “PHILOSOPHIE ZOOLOGIQUE”
33The Influence of Circumstances on the Actions and Habits of Animals.
34CHAPTER XVIII LAMARCK’S THEORY AS TO THE EVOLUTION OF MAN
35CHAPTER XIX LAMARCK’S THOUGHTS ON MORALS, AND ON THE RELATION BETWEEN SCIENCE AND RELIGION
36CHAPTER XX THE RELATIONS BETWEEN LAMARCKISM AND DARWINISM; NEOLAMARCKISM
37A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS OF J.B. DE LAMARCK 1778–1828
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