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Jennifer Ebeling

#December 18, 1829
#OTD Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, #French #Naturalist, #Biologist, & #Academic, died #Lonely, #Blind, & #Impoverished in #Paris.

Regarded as the #Father of #Evolutionary #Theory, he paved the way for #Darwin.
He was an early thinker on #ContinentalDrift.

As a #Botanist at the Royal #Botanical #Garden & #Herbarium, he #Ingeniously saved the garden during the #French #Revolution by #Quietly renaming it w/ a #Humble #Sign that simply read The Garden of #Plants.

Portrait of Lamarck wearing a military jacket by Charles Thévenin, C: 1802 Jean-Baptiste Lamarck was a soldier. He fought in the Seven Years' War against Prussia and received a commission for bravery on the battlefield. In 1766, he was injured, retired from the army, and resumed his medical studies.
Palm trees and other tropicals blurred but visible behind a greenhouse window.
#Royal#Omitted
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