where is he from?
Bazentin, Picardy
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck was born in Bazentin
who proposed a theory of evolution based on acquired characteristics Jean-Baptiste Lamarck who is he? He was a French naturalist. He was a soldier, biologist, and academic
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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck [SEP] Biography
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck was born in Bazentin, Picardy, northern France, as the 11th child in an impoverished aristocratic family. Male members of the Lamarck family had traditionally served in the French army. Lamarck's eldest brother was killed in combat at the Siege of Bergen op Zoom, and two other brothers were still in service when Lamarck was in his teenaged years. Yielding to the wishes of his father, Lamarck enrolled in a Jesuit college in Amiens in the late 1750s. After his father died in 1760, Lamarck bought himself a horse, and rode across the country to join the French army, which was in Germany at the time.