Unlucky Lamarck

Evolution Talk

English - February 02, 2015 11:03 - 18 minutes - 26 MB - ★★★★★ - 186 ratings
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Jean Baptiste Lamarck's mechanism for evolution was wrong, as history shows, and that fact has haunted his memory ever since. But ideas and theories have ways of being resurrected and, in recent years, there are hints out there that Lamarck wasn’t completely off base when he proposed his theory for the evolution of species.