About the book: 1961 / "Lamarck! Who will not take off his hat in the name of a man whose genius was not recognized and who died, exhausted by attacks... Honor and glory to you. Respect for your memory! You died in the breach, fighting for the truth, and the truth ensured your immortality.” The author of the book “The Feat of Life of the Chevalier de Lamarck” tells about Jean Baptiste Lamarck, the great French scientist of the second half of the 18th and the first quarter of the 19th centuries, the founder of evolutionary teaching. pages of his childhood, youth, and first steps in science pass by. And here he is on the road from which he has never left - on the road of a scientist, natural scientist and philosopher. Now his path is illuminated by the search for truth, and the persistent, painstaking work of a scientist contains the meaning of life. Lamarck created a doctrine about the development of the face of the Earth, about the essence of life, about the development of animals and plants from the simplest forms, about the origin of man. His deep and bold ideas were not understood and recognized at that time. The author talks about the scientific feat of J. B. Lamarck and recreates a living, attractive image of this fearless knight of science, who deeply believed in future progress.