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The 19 pages that link to Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, each with the reason it gives.

• Charles DarwinCompared with: Lamarck’s earlier evolutionary theory differed from Darwin’s account of natural selection.

• Carl LinnaeusCompared with: Lamarck’s transformist ideas moved beyond the fixed-species framework associated with Linnaeus.

• EvolutionCompared with: His account shows how pre-Darwinian explanations differed from evolution by natural selection.

• Georges CuvierCompared with: Lamarck’s transformist account directly opposed Cuvier’s defense of species fixity.

• LamarckismRelated: His writings set out the theory now known as Lamarckism.

• AnnelidRelated: Lamarck established the name Annelida for the group of segmented worms.

• AnnelidaRelated: Lamarck introduced the name Annelida for the segmented worms in the early nineteenth century.

• MoraceaeRelated: He published the family name Moraceae in botanical classification.

• Paris BasinRelated: His studies of fossil and living mollusks drew on the Paris region’s rich deposits.

• Evolutionary theoryRelated: His account of acquired characteristics contrasts with later explanations based on inherited variation.

• Inheritance of Acquired CharacteristicsRelated: His theory made acquired traits and their inheritance central to evolutionary change.

• Augustin Pyramus de CandolleRelated: De Candolle studied botany in Paris and worked with Lamarck on botanical publications.

• Cannabis ruderalisRelated: His Cannabis indica classification helped shape later arguments over Cannabis species.

• Étienne Geoffroy Saint-HilaireRelated: Lamarck and Geoffroy both challenged fixed species, though their explanations of change differed.

• Jean-Étienne GuettardCompared with: Lamarck’s later geological and natural-history work offers a contrast with Guettard’s earlier mineral-mapping program.

• Alternatives to Darwinian evolutionRelated: His theory supplied the most influential pre-Darwinian alternative to natural selection.

• ArthropodologyRelated: Lamarck's work helped define invertebrates as a major subject of zoological study.

• Georges-Louis LeclercRelated: Lamarck developed evolutionary ideas amid debates Buffon had helped open.

• Gottfried Reinhold TreviranusRelated: Lamarck independently used biology for the study of living bodies around the same time.