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The Power of Life: Lamarck and the Invention of Biology

Thu, 26 Mar 2026

New York Society Library

53 East 79th Street, NY 10075

Free entry

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Stanford historian Jessica Riskin reassesses Lamarck, the man who coined biology, arguing his ideas endure in modern biology through epigenetics and niche construction, in an engaging lecture at the New York Society Library.

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