Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Quote

It is not the organs—that is, the character and form of the animal's bodily parts—that have given rise to its habits and particular structures. It is the habits and manner of life and the conditions in which its ancestors lived that have in the course of time fashioned its bodily form, its organs and qualities.


As quoted in: The Foundations of Life Science (Van Nostrand, 1958), p. 568


It is not the organs—that is, the character and form of the animal's bodily parts—that have given rise to its habits and particular structures....

It is not the organs—that is, the character and form of the animal's bodily parts—that have given rise to its habits and particular structures....

It is not the organs—that is, the character and form of the animal's bodily parts—that have given rise to its habits and particular structures....

It is not the organs—that is, the character and form of the animal's bodily parts—that have given rise to its habits and particular structures....