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Lamarck beat Darwin to the tree
Posted by Daniel MacArthur on August 16, 2009
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A useful reminder for evolutionary biologists and science journalists, posted to the Evoldir list by Joel Parker: I have noticed many evolutionary biologists making an embarrassing mistake of falsely attributing the first use of the tree analogy to Darwin. This has occurred in numerous documentaries and on websites which I will pass on naming here. Ironically, the…