Although the name "Lamarck" is now associated with a discredited view of evolution, the French biologist's notion that organisms inherit the traits acquired during their parents' lifetime had common ...

We have an HHS Secretary in Robert F. Kennedy Jr. whose dissemination of misinformation about vaccines in the form of books, commentaries and public announcements is now too voluminous to quantify.

You might recall from high school biology a scientist by the name of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck. He proposed a mechanism of evolution in which organisms pass on traits acquired during their lifetimes to ...

If there is an afterlife, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck has had a roller-coaster of a ride. His life went well enough at first, defined early by honors gained on the battlefield and in the lab. Lamarck was a ...

Il y a deux Lamarck : le Lamarck philosophe, et le Lamarck classificateur. Ces deux Lamarck ne sont réunis que dans les premières années de la carrière zoologique du savant : au moment où il a conçu ...

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829) formulated the first real theory of biological evolution, in which organisms acquired traits directly from adapting to the environments they faced and passed those ...

Preface: The Jurassic Park of Nevada -- Introduction: Looking back -- From God to science -- Lamarck to Darwin -- From Darwin to the new (modern) synthesis -- Epigenetics and the newer synthesis -- ...

The Tangled Tree: A radical new history of life by David Quammen, William Collins Lamarck’s Revenge: How epigenetics is revolutionizing our understanding of evolution’s past and present by Peter Ward, ...

Les travaux du naturaliste Jean-Baptiste Lamarck révèlent l'apport essentiel de la figure de l'antithèse dans l'argumentation scientifique. Employée de manière systématique dans la méthode ...

Among the things that scientists don't like is having their grant proposal denied, having their papers rejected by eminent journals, and not getting tenure. Among the things they really, really hate ...

In the mid-20th century, under Joseph Stalin's Soviet regime in Russia, Trofim Lysenko pushed an ideological system of agriculture that, among many questionable planks, contended that various crop ...

A study shows that when mice are taught to fear an odor, both their offspring and the next generation are born fearing it. The gene for an olfactory receptor activated by the odor is specifically ...