Genus Lamarckia
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For Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet Lamarck (1744–1829), French soldier, naturalist, zoologist, palaeontologist, conchologist and evolutionist. After a military injury in 1766 he resigned from the army and studied medicine, then botany, for 10 years. In 1778 he published a three-volume work, Flora Française, and became a royal botanist (1781), keeper of the Royal Garden herbarium (1788), and curator of this garden and professor of invertebrate zoology at the Museum d’Histoire Naturelle in Paris (1793). While Lamarck’s evolutionary theories (evolution through inheritance of acquired characters) have been discredited, his seven-volume Histoire Naturelle des Animaux Sans Vertèbres (1815–1822) is recognised as a lasting contribution to zoology.