Published by Samuel Huckins on 26 Jul 2007
Notes on “Zoological Philosophy”
Notes on Zoological Philosophy, by J.B. Lamarck-
Chapter 7-
- Concerning the influence exerted by the environment on the various living bodies exposed to it. It is in all times and places operative on living bodies.
- The state in which we find any animal is, on the one hand, the result of the increasing complexity of organisation tending to form a regular gradation; and, on the other hand, of the influence of a multitude of very various conditions ever tending to destroy the regularity in the gradation of the increasing complexity of organisation.