"It is not the organs-that is, the character……" — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
"It is not the organs-that is, the character and form of the animal's bodily parts-that have given rise to its habits and particular structures. It is the habits and manner of life and the conditions in which its ancestors lived that have in the course of time fashioned its bodily form, its organs and qualities."
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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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18 Quotes by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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After having produced aquatic animals of all ranks and having caused extensive variations in them by the different environments provided…
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In every animal which has not passed the limit of its development, a more frequent and continuous use of any…
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However, if we consider that all the characteristics which have been cited are only differences in degree of structure, may…
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One must believe that every living thing whatsoever must change insensibly in its organization and in its form... One must…
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All the acquisitions or losses wrought by nature on individuals, through the influence of the environment in which their race…
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The great age of the earth will appear greater to man when he understands the origin of living organisms and…
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What nature does in the course of long periods we do every day when we suddenly change the environment in…
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A sound Physics of the Earth should include all the primary considerations of the earth's atmosphere, of the characteristics and…
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Life, in a body whose order and state of affairs can make it manifest, is assuredly, as I have said,…
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It is not enough to discover and prove a useful truth previously unknown, but that it is necessary also to…
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Now this circumscribed power, which we have scarcely examined, scarcely studied, this power to whose actions we nearly always attribute…
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On our planet, all objects are subject to continual and inevitable changes which arise from the essential order of things.…
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