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

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

by Jessica Riskin

Riverhead Books ·2026 ·496 pages
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"Compelling and intellectually rigorous."

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"An intriguing look at the life of a scientist who changed the way we look at life."

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"Effectively explaining how her subject's thoughts on evolution were twisted by his detractors into a caricature of what he originally intended, Riskin concludes that, in many ways, 'Lamarck was right.' Historians and scientists will find much to savor."

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