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Historical Influences on Darwin Charles

One individual who had a great positive influence on Charles Darwin's development of Natural Selection was Jean-Baptiste Lamark. When Lamark wrote his ideas on transmutation, Darwin was interested and started following him on it. He also used Lamark's idea of use and disuse of organs.

Although Jean-Baptiste was ignored throughout his lifetime, he published books on zoology and paleontology and in one the zoology books, it states Baptiste's theories of evolution. There is one thing he did do that was noticable. He did work on invertebrates and he was the first to seperate the Insecta.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/lamarck.html

Darwin could have developed his theory of Natural Selection without the influence of Baptiste's idea of use and disuse, but learning from other people's questionable theories improves your own theories. Baptiste's ideas were brought to Darwin's attention, Darwin decided to see for himself, he found out it was wrong and thought of something else.

Since Darwin was religious, he did not want to publish his ideas because he knew there would be controversy. When Alfred Russell Wallace wrote to him, that is when Darwin decided to publish his ideas.