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Noun: Chevalier de Lamarck
  1. French naturalist who proposed that evolution resulted from the inheritance of acquired characteristics (1744-1829)
    - Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Lamarck, Jean Baptiste de Lamarck

Type of: natural scientist, naturalist

Encyclopedia: Chevalier de Lamarck