04Nov 2026 by Post

Back to the Future with Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Aeon, August Weismann, biology, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, epigenetics, eugenicists, Evolution, Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, history of science, internal changes, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Jessica Riskin, living things, Napoleon, Nature (journal), Neo-Darwinism, Reign of Terror, Scientific American, seals, The Power of Life, Weismann barrier
Lamarck believed that “all living beings are constantly transforming themselves” and thus life forms shape their own evolution. Source
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09Jul 2026 by Post

Re-evaluating Lamarck’s Contribution to Evolutionary Thought

adaptations, biology, conscious purposiveness, determinism, Edmund Ware Sinnott, environment, epigenetics, Eva Jablonka, Evolution, Evolution: The History of an Idea, freedom, George Levine, Georges Cuvier, history, history of science, homeostasis, inheritance, instinctive regulation, J. Scott Turner, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Jerry Coyne, Jessica Riskin, Lamarckism, Laurent Larson, Marion Lamb, Motivation, neo-Darwinian synthesis, personality, Peter J. Bowler, Purpose and Desire, regeneration, Skeptic Magazine, teleology, The Power of Life, Yale University
The rehabilitation of Lamarck and the important work of scholars of the past (i.e., Sinnott) and present (i.e., Turner) suggest an interesting conclusion. Source
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