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Jean Baptiste Lamarck And Charles Darwin

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I believe that Jean Baptiste Lamarck's (botanist/zoologist) ideas on species evolving from adaptation over time contributed to Charles Darwin's ideas. Darwin didn't believe exactly the same way Lamarck did on how the genes were passed on from parent to offspring. The idea of evolutionary change that Lamarck deduced helped Darwin add onto the scientific train of thought. Thomas Malthus' (economist) paper on populations and their growth and decline is said to have intrigued Darwin. Using Malthus' idea and applying it in that way gave Darwin something to look for. The idea that maybe only the strong, or well suited, for the environment would survive and end up reproducing. Comte de Buffon influenced Darwin in that during his travel he had noted
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