A talented technical artist, Anna Children (later AA
) contributed more than two hundred illustrations to her father
's translation of Jean Lamarck
's Genera of Shells.
Nicholls, C. S., editor. The Dictionary of National Biography: Missing Persons. Oxford University Press, 1993.
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
She here takes up the discourse of Lamarckian
genetics, which was founded on the idea that a parent could pass on characteristics acquired throughout their lifetime to their offspring. CPG
maintained: The way to make...
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1815-22: Jean Lamarck's Histoire naturelle des animaux...
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Jean Lamarck
's Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres (Natural History of Invertebrates), published over these years, was the first work to distinguish between vertebrates and invertebrates.
Hellemans, Alexander, and Bryan Bunch. The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science. Simon and Shuster, 1988.
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