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In Retrospect: Lamarck's treatise at 200

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Fifty years before On the Origin of Species, a confusing, tiresome and prescient book laid the foundations of modern evolutionary theory, write Dan Graur, Manolo Gouy and David Wool.

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  1. Dan Graur is John and Rebecca Moores Professor in the Department of Biology and Biochemistry at the University of Houston, Texas 77204-5001, USA dgraur@uh.edu,

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  2. Manolo Gouy is directeur de recherche CNRS at the Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Évolutive, Université Lyon 1, 69622 Villeurbanne, France ,

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  3. David Wool is professor emeritus of zoology at Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel.,

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Graur, D., Gouy, M. & Wool, D. In Retrospect: Lamarck's treatise at 200. Nature 460, 688–689 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/460688a

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