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essentialism - plant and animal species stayed unchanged throughout time. around 1800s lamarck developed idea of 'transmutation' - traits acquired by a creature during its lifetime could be inherited by its offspring. darwin, developing his theory of evolution would reject many of lamarck's ideas, "but both men shared the belief that complex life evolved over an immense period of time.”