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August 01: Jean-Baptiste de Monet, chevalier de Lamarck

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French biologist Jean-Baptiste de Monet, chevalier (knight) de Lamarck, who was born this day in 1744, was best known for his notion that acquired traits are inheritable—an idea known as Lamarckism, which is controverted by Darwinian theory.