Paradoxul transformismului de tip Lamarckian
The paradox of Lamarckian-type transformism

Summary/Abstract: Jean Baptiste Lamarck is the pioneer of the transformism theory through his famous work “Philosophia Zoologica”, published in 1809. He is the first man of science who put forward the idea concerning to species transformation influenced by environment conditions. Lamarck’s principles concerning to species transformation was not received as a successfully revelation especially because of the opposition of Georges Leopold Cuvier. After a period, the Evolutionary Theory of Darwin was been substantiated (1859), through the printed version of “Origin of Species”, an important book which successfully promoted this theory. In the same time, the transformism principles elaborated by J.B. Lamarck were being rediscovered. A new group of Neo-Lamarckian trends were initiated for the development of Lamarck’s ideas (Mechano-Lamarckism, Mnemysm, chemical Lamarckism, Ortho-Lamarckism). Although the transformism principles were not accepted by the Synthetic Theory of Evolution, there appeared some modern Neo Lamarckian trends which tried to highlight some of Lamarck’s principles of transformism.In our community, we try to analyze the paradox concerning the permanence of Lamarck’s theory until present day.

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