Două sute de ani de la publicarea Philosophia Zoologica: vizionarismul lui Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Two hundred years since the publication of Philosophia Zoologica: Jean-Baptiste Lamarck's visionary

Summary/Abstract: In 1809, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744–1829) was publishing his Philosophia Zoologica. It was the fruit of a mature reflection on the natural history as it was known by his contemporaries, as well as of the acquiescence of the necessity for a new theory that would explain the increasing complexity of the organisation of the living matter as well as the speciation. Father of the evolutionism, than called transformism, and of the term of „biology”, Lamarck was time after time noticed, discarded and ignored for two hundred years. Never the less, some aspects of his theory are making a comeback, more fashionable than ever, highlighted by a new current in natural sciences and by breakethrough in epigenetics. An evolutionist ahead of his time and, most of all, before Darwin (The Origin of the Species will be published only in 1859), the man that was Lamarck deserves to be acknowledged for his assiduous and hard work, his discerning genius as well as for his survival as a scientist during the murky times of the French revolution.

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