1. Although I believe all of these individuals had great influence over Charles Darwin, I believe Jean-Baptiste Lamark had the most significant influence.
2. Jean-Baptiste Lamark is responsible for the, “discredited theory of heredity, the ‘inheritance of acquired traits’”.
3. The point which is affected by Lamark’s work is that, “in order for traits to evolve and change, they MUST be heritable”. This is because Lamark discussed how one inherits their traits which their parents or ancestors acquired over time through adaptation so surroundings.
4. Although Lamark was the first individual who proposed such ideas, Darwin may or may not have developed his theory of natural selection, without it, depending upon if it could have been proposed by someone other than Lamark, or if he came to it on his own.
5. Although Darwin published and presented his book On the Origin of Species, it essentially took him twenty years to do it, because he had been looked down on by the church and even some colleagues.
Works Cited
"Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829)." Web.
