This is a Dutch-language edition of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck’s Philosophie zoologique (1809), his pioneering work on the natural history of living things. Lamarck set out one of the first comprehensive theories of biological evolution, proposing that organisms change over time and adapt to their environments — the view, including the inheritance of acquired characteristics, later known as Lamarckism.
This free EPUB edition is in Dutch and has been carefully cleaned and formatted for modern e-readers. A landmark in the history of biology and the philosophy of nature, the work marks an important early step toward modern evolutionary thinking, decades before Darwin.