Transcription: The French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck is most famous for his so-called heresy, the view that animals could pass on to their offspring characteristics acquired during their lifetime, like learning how to ride a bike. Oh, it's not true, by the way. But he's also important as a classifier. In 1801, he published a classification system for invertebrates, that's animals without backbones, based on his understanding of evolutionary principles.
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