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