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Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine (1744 - 1829) |
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| Naturalist and Botanist | |
| Born: 1 August 1744 France. Died: 18 December 1829. | |
| Jean Baptiste P. A. Lamark was appointed botanist to the French king in 1781 and from 1793 was professor of invertebrate zoology at the Museum of Natural History, Paris. He devised one of the earliest hypotheses explaining the evolutionary development of life. |
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