* 1744 – Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French scientist ( d. 1829 )

* Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck ( 1744-1829 ) was the first biologist to describe a complex theory of evolution.

Natural historians, such as Humbolt, James Hutton and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck ( among others ) laid the foundations of the modern ecological sciences.

This theory ( commonly associated with Jean-Baptiste Lamarck ) is now known to be wrong — the experiences of individuals do not affect the genes they pass to their children.

In the early 19th century, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck believed that the giraffe's long neck was an " acquired characteristic ", developed as generations of ancestral giraffes strived to reach the leaves of tall trees.

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, who was appointed to the position of " Curator of Insecta and Vermes " at the Muséum National d ' Histoire Naturelle in 1793, both coined the term " invertebrate " to describe such animals, and divided the original two groups into ten, by splitting Arachnida and Crustacea from the Linnean Insecta, and Mollusca, Annelida, Cirripedia, Radiata, Coelenterata and Infusoria from the Linnean Vermes.

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Charles Darwin's grandfather Erasmus Darwin outlined a hypothesis of transmutation of species in the 1790s, and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck published a more developed theory in 1809.

* Jean-Baptiste Lamarck publishes Philosophie Zoologique, outlining the concept of evolution.

* December 28 – Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French scientist ( b. 1744 )

* August 1 – Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French naturalist ( d. 1829 )

In 1785, noted evolutionary biologist Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck published a description of a second species of Cannabis, which he named Cannabis indica Lam.

This idea, if true, rules out the inheritance of acquired characteristics as proposed by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck.

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck worked independently on cloud categorization and came up with a different naming scheme that failed to make an impression even in his home country of France because it used unusual French names for cloud types.

* 1801 — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck began the detailed study of invertebrate taxonomy.

The first major revision was done by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck in his 1801 Système des Animaux sans Vertebres.

Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de la Marck ( 1 August 1744 – 18 December 1829 ), often known simply as Lamarck, was a French naturalist.

He is well known for establishing extinction as a fact, being the most influential proponent of catastrophism in geology in the early 19th century, and opposing the evolutionary theories of Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck and Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire.

It is named after the French biologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck ( 1744 – 1829 ), who incorporated the action of soft inheritance into his evolutionary theories.

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

Subsequently Jean-Baptiste Lamarck repeated in his Philosophie Zoologique of 1809 the folk wisdom that characteristics which were " needed " were acquired ( or diminished ) during the lifetime of an organism then passed on to the offspring.

* Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

* Jean-Baptiste Lamarck ( 1744 – 1829 ), French naturalist

The Frenchman Jean-Baptiste Lamarck ( 1744 — 1829 ) published his theory of evolution in Philosophie Zoologique in 1809.

Howard was not the first to attempt a classification of clouds — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck ( 1744 – 1829 ) had earlier proposed a list of descriptive terms in French — but the success of Howard's system was due to his use of universal Latin, as well as to his emphasis on the mutability of clouds.

* 1671 – Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French poet ( d. 1741 )

* 1651 – Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, French educational reformer and Catholic saint ( d. 1719 )

* 1768 – Jean-Baptiste Bessières, French marshal ( d. 1813 )

* 1810 – Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France, is elected Crown Prince of Sweden by the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates.

* 1725 – Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter ( d. 1805 )

* 1619 – Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French politician ( d. 1683 )

* 1773 – Jean-Baptiste de Villèle, French statesman ( d. 1854 )

* 1833 – Jean-Baptiste Accolay, Belgian composer ( d. 1900 )

* 1774 – Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist ( d. 1862 )

* 1719 – Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, French saint ( b. 1651 )

* Jean-Baptiste Muard ( 1809 – 1854 )

# Joseph Bonaparte ( Corte 1768 – Florence 1844 ), King of Naples and Spain, married Julie Clary, sister of Napoleon's childhood sweetheart, Désirée, who was to become the wife of General Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, the later Charles XIV of Sweden.

* 1990 – Jean-Baptiste Maunier, French actor and singer

In the revival movement France held a foremost place, owing to the reputation and convincing power of the orator, Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire ( 1802 – 1861 ).

* 1583 – Jean-Baptiste Morin, French scientist ( d. 1656 )

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* 1825 – Jean-Baptiste Salpointe, second Archbishop of Santa Fe ( d. 1898 )

Triumph of Faith over Idolatry by Jean-Baptiste Théodon ( 1646 – 1713 )

* 1818 – Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.

* 1677 – Jean-Baptiste Morin, French composer ( d. 1745 )

** Louis XIV the Sun King and his minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert, 1643 – 1715

* 1714 – Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor ( d. 1785 )

* 1704 – Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d ' Argens, French writer ( d. 1771 )