Open AccessNature and nurture: L amarck's legacy
Author(s) -
Gadjev Ilya
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
biological journal of the linnean society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.906
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1095-8312
pISSN - 0024-4066
DOI - 10.1111/bij.12439
Subject(s) - biology , the renaissance , nature versus nurture , naturalism , relation (database) , environmental ethics , politics , classics , focus (optics) , art history , epistemology , history , law , genetics , philosophy , physics , optics , database , computer science , political science
This year (2014) marks the 270th anniversary of J ean‐ B aptiste de L amarck's birth, which presents a good occasion to reflect on the wide‐reaching, although largely ignored, legacy of the F rench naturalist and its modern‐day renaissance. A discussion is provided of the broad and controversial influence of L amarckian thought on science, politics and art, with a focus on L amarck's curious recent comeback to the public and academic eyes in relation to the burgeoning discipline of epigenetics. © 2014 The Linnean Society of London, Biological Journal of the Linnean Society , 2015, 114 , 242–247.