Assertion: organism's form | /r/CapableOf | develop greater complexity
Facets:
value: in parallel lineages
type: OTHER
value: with an inherent progressive tendency
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: The first full-fledged evolutionary scheme was Jean-Baptiste Lamarck's "transmutation" theory of 1809, which envisaged spontaneous generation continually producing simple forms of life that developed greater complexity in parallel lineages with an inherent progressive tendency, and postulated that on a local level, these lineages adapted to the environment by inheriting changes caused by their use or disuse in parents.