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                                                          JEAN-BAPTISTE LAMARK                              Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet Chevalier de Lamarck  Born: 1-Aug-1744  Birthplace: Bazentin-le-Petit, France  Died: 18-Dec-1829  Location of death: Paris, France  Cause of death: unspecified  Remains: Missing  Religion: Deist  Race or Ethnicity: White  Occupation: Biologist  Nationality: France  Executive summary: Early invertebrate biologist, evolutionary theorist       Military service: French Army (1759-68)       French naturalist, born on the 1st of August 1744, at Bazantin, a village of Picardy. He was an eleventh child; and his father, lord of the manor and of old family, but of limited means, having placed three sons in the army, destined this one for the church, and sent him to the Jesuits at Amiens, where he continued until his father's death. After this he would remain with the Jesuits no longer, and, not yet seventeen years of age, starte