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The Power of Life

The Invention of Biology and the Revolutionary Science of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

by Jessica Riskin

ISBN
9780593852576

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  • New York Review of Books · 17 Sept 2026

    Posterity Avenged Him

    In a society still solidly creationist in outlook, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck was the first working scientist to embrace the modern idea that species or lineages of organisms can evolve over time.

    Ian Tattersall