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Am Clark, working for a French naturalist (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

lamarck

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'french naturalist' is the definition.
(I know that Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck is a natural scientist\nI know that (HasCountryOfCitizenship c8b2e941 France)\nI know that (IsA HasCountryOfCitizenship LocationAttributeProvider)\nTherefore, Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck is French\nTherefore, Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck is a French natural scientist)

'am clark working' is the wordplay.
'working' indicates an anagram.
'am'+'clark'='amclark'
'amclark' is an anagram of 'LAMARCK'.

'for a' acts as a link.

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(Other definitions for lamarck that I've seen before include "J.B.de -, eighteenth century French naturalist" , "scientist" , "proponent of evolution" , "Evolution theorist" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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