#lamarck — Public Fediverse posts

This week's #NewBooks at the library:
- I found a much reduced copy of Contesting Earth's History in Transatlantic Literary Culture, 1860–1935: Believers and Visionaries on the Borderlines of #Geology and #Palaeontology, published by Oxford University Press
- I was so taken with Guillermo del Toro's visual take on #Frankenstein, I bought the book on the making of the movie by Sheila O'Malley, published by Titan Books.
- I found a second-hand copy of The Spirit of System: #Lamarck and #EvolutionaryBiology, published by Harvard University Press, which should come in handy for a future review on Lamarck.

#Books #Bookstodon #Paleontology #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Evolution #Scicomm @bookstodon

Jaap Tielbeeke zit het goed. Het is tijd voor een herwaardering van de relatie tussen mens en natuur. Die is anders dan we lang dachten maar in het denken van #debuffon, #lamarck en #forster kun je zien dat er goed een andere afslag mogelijk is.

https://www.groene.nl/artikel/het-begon-met-de-planten

We kunnen de wonderen in de natuur ook omarmen. Dat verandert onze positie en daarmee onze houding. https://archive.is/PyKsz

@DeGroene @Trouw

I saved this earlier today to read later, and now I can't seem to find where I got it from. I wish I could give credit. But it is too good to pass up if you have an interest in the history of science or meteorology.

So, this is an excerpt from Jessica Riskin's book The Power Of Life. It tells of Lamarck's ventures in meteorology (you may remember him better as a biologist). I knew nothing of this fascinating story.
#JessicaRiskin #meteorology #history #Lamarck

https://www.the-hinternet.com/p/the-science-of-weather-and-the-nature

And yes, of course, a vigorously Lamarckian interpretation of this could suggest that the offspring of wolves raised in high-rise apartments might be especially well-suited for life in high-rise apartment buildings. Who am I to question meticulously doing one's own research?
#Lamarckism #Lamarck #wolf #wolves #highrise #AustinTX #risk #RiskAnalysis

Critically important new book from my colleague and friend Snait Gissis. Essential reading. #evolution #lamarck #HerbertSpencer #socialscience #philsci #histsci @philbio @histstm @socialscience @philosophyofscience
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-52756-2

On a lighter note, the prompt for this one was people whose failures overshadowed their successes.

#Cracked #photoplasty #Lamarck #HistoryOfScience

In 1809, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck proposed the theory that animals evolve according to their need and that they pass their acquired characteristics to their offspring. #Poetry #Science #History #Evolution #Lamarck (https://sharpgiving.com/thebookofscience/items/p1809.html)

I think the Marlin Lab is proving that Lamarckism wasn't totally wrong. It's a very interesting development in Evolution theory and science. I'll be paying close attention. Particularly to how trauma effects genetic material.

#Lamarck
#MarlinLab
#DrBiancaMarlin
#Evolution

A lot going on here. #Nietzsche on #Hegel #Lamarck vs #Schopenhauer vs #Darwin in Walter Kaufman.

Always seemed weird to me that people forget that Darwin also allowed for acquired characteristics. I feel like he was deliberately misread for a long time, to make him appear compatible with Neo-Darwinism (whose shortcomings are now shown in epigenetics). In other words, Darwin had it right, and many, including Nietzsche, misunderstood him. #philosophy #evolution

Growing pure #nanotubes is a stretch, but possible https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/970663 the #lamarck approach to the #nanoworld

« L’homme par son égoïsme trop peu clairvoyant pour ses propres intérêts, par son penchant à jouir de tout ce qui est à sa disposition, en un mot, par son insouciance pour l’avenir et pour ses semblables, semble travailler à l’anéantissement de ses moyens de conservation et à la destruction même de sa propre espèce [...] On dirait que l’homme est destiné à s’exterminer lui-même après avoir rendu le globe inhabitable. »

Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck, 1820

#lamarck #citation #environnement