BIOGRAP HY

Jean Baptiste
Lamarck
1744-1829
JEAN-BAPTISTE-PIERRE-ANTOINE DE MONET,
CHEVALIER DE LAMARCK

French naturalist

SOLDIER

BIOLOGIST
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JEAN BAPTISTE LAMARCK

August 1, 1744, france

December 18, 1829, Paris

JEAN BAPTISTE LAMARCK

PHILIPPE JACQUES DE MONET

DE LA MARCK
FATHER

MARIE-FRANÇOISE DE
FONTAINES DE
CHUIGNOLLES
MOTHER
Most men in Lamarck's family went into the military,
including his father and older brothers.

Lamarck also wanted to go to the military

Facts
But Jean's father pushed him toward a career in the Church,
so Lamarck went to a Jesuit college in the late 1750s

When his father died in 1760, Lamarck rode off to a battle in

Germany and joined the French army.
He was injured during a game in the military.

The injury got worsen during the surgery. Then he was

decommissioned.
Facts
He then went off to study medicine with his brother

He decided along the way, that the natural world, and

particularly botany, were a better choice for him.
Personal
Life
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Had a total of eight children with three different wives

Marie Rosalie Delaporte

The first wife who gave him six children before she died in
1792
Facts
Charlotte Victoire Reverdy
The second wife who gave birth to two children but died two
years after they were married

Julie Mallet
The final wife who did not have any children before she died in
1819.
The wives

• Marie Rosalie 2. Charlotte Victoire 3. Julie Mallet

Delaporte Reverdy
biography
 FAMOUS DICOVERIES AND WORKS
Flore française (1778- "French
Flora")
a book that contained the
first dichotomous key
--helped identify different
species based on contrasting
characteristics
"invertebrate"
Lamarck was the first to use Theory of Evolution.
this term "invertebrate" to
His most well-known
describe animals without
contributions to zoology were
backbones
rooted in this theory
 JEAN-BAPTISTE
LAMARCK
One of the first scientists to publish the idea
that:
adaptation occurred in species to help them
better survive in the environment.

He went on to assert that these physical

changes were then passed down to the next
generation
FACTS
While this is now known
to be incorrect, Charles
Darwin used these ideas
when forming his theory
of Natural Selection.
 FAMOUS DICOVERIES AND WORKS
Encyclopédie
méthodique (“Methodica
l Encyclopaedia”) Mémoires of the Academy
Journal d’histoire naturelle
of Sciences (1792)
1783 and 1792 Lamarck Lamarck also published he cofounded and coedited a
published three large botanical botanical papers short-lived journal of natural
volumes history

:a massive publishing
enterprise
FACTS
In 1802, Lamarck had also introduced the
term biology.

He died in poverty and obscurity

B I O G RAPHY

JAMES
HUTTON
1726-1797
T H E
JAMES HUTTON
FACTS:

1 BORN
June 3,1726
Edinburgh, Scotland
3 EDUCATION

Education: University
of Edinburgh,

2
University of Paris,
DIED University of Leiden
March 26,1797
Edinburgh, Scotland
Died at the age of 70
4 FATHER OF
MODERN BIOLOGY
 PARENTS

William Hutton
FAT H E R

Sarah Balfour
JAMES HUTTON MOTHER
 At the young age of 14,
EDUCATION Hutton was sent off to the
University of Edinburgh
(Latin and other humanities
courses)
Hutton finished his
medical studies in Paris
before receiving his degree
from the University of Leiden
in the Netherlands in 1749.
 Originator of "Theory of the Plutonism
uniformitaria- earth"
nism
Hutton showed
JAMES HUTTON
-Opposed
explains the that Earth had a
neptunism
features of the long history that
Earth’s crust by -rock-forming
could be
means of natural processes are
interpreted in
processes over constant and slow
terms of processes
geologic time
observed in the
present
 THANKS!

PREPARED BY: Group 4