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Snait B. Gissis

Snait Gissis is on the faculty of the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas at Tel Aviv University.

Titles by This Editor

Transformations of Lamarckism

From Subtle Fluids to Molecular Biology
Edited by Snait B. Gissis and Eva Jablonka

In 1809—the year of Charles Darwin’s birth—Jean-Baptiste Lamarck published Philosophie zoologique, the first comprehensive and systematic theory of biological evolution. The Lamarckian approach emphasizes the generation of developmental variations; Darwinism stresses selection. Lamarck’s ideas were eventually eclipsed by Darwinian concepts, especially after the emergence of the Modern Synthesis in the twentieth century.