Title

Medal commemorating Jean Baptiste de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck, French biologist, 20th century. Artist: Unknown

Caption

Medal commemorating Jean Baptiste de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck, French biologist, 20th century. Lamarck's (1744-1829) theory of evolution by inheritance of acquired characteristics was known as Lamarckism or Transformism. His theory was rejected by geneticists from the 1930s onwards, except in the Soviet Union, where it continued to be accepted until the 1960s. Lamarck is also credited with being the first to use the term 'biology'. Reverse of a commemorative medal showing an evolutionary tree with Man at the top.
Oxford Science Archive

Date

1900

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B66_124

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,0Mb (2,8Mb) / 14,1in x 13,7in / 4243 x 4116 (300dpi)

Keywords

nature tree people male man men plant country French France science evolution guy color colour location century commemorative biology concept genetics medal medals natural history 19th century 18th century 20th century Eighteenth Century nineteenth century Oxford Science Archive Lamarckism Chevalier de Lamarck object Unknown bronze Charles Darwin Darwin Charles Robert Jean-Baptiste de Monet Jean-Baptiste de Monet Lamarck Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Jean Lamarck Jean-Baptiste de Monet Chevalier de Lamarck Charles Darwin bronze object