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Jessica G. Riskin

Jessica G. Riskin is a historian of science and Frances and Charles Field Professor of History at Stanford University in the United States. She is the author of Power of Life: The Invention of Biology and the Revolutionary Science of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck.

What Lamarck’s Giraffe Got Right

Jessica Riskin’s three greatest revelations while writing Power of Life

May 14, 2026