The Power of Life: The Invention of Biology and the Revolutionary Science of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Riverhead BooksISBN-13:9780593852576ISBN-10:593852575UPC:9780593852576Book Category:Science, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Life Sciences, History, Science & TechnologyBook Topic:BiologySize:9.31 x 6.39 x 1.63 inchesWeight:1.4021Product ID:SCN8NHWKTP
The Power of Life: The Invention of Biology and the Revolutionary Science of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
"A truly remarkable achievement." --Jill Lepore "A gorgeous story of human nature and animal behavior--and of the way science itself evolves." --Dava Sobel The tumultuous life and radical science of a revolutionary thinker, and the history of an idea that changed the world In the early nineteenth century, the French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck proposed the first evolutionary theory of life...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Riverhead BooksISBN-13:9780593852576ISBN-10:593852575UPC:9780593852576Book Category:Science, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Life Sciences, History, Science & TechnologyBook Topic:BiologySize:9.31 x 6.39 x 1.63 inchesWeight:1.4021Product ID:SCN8NHWKTP
Jessica Riskin is the Frances and Charles Field Professor of History at Stanford University, where she teaches modern European history and the history of science. She is the author of The Restless Clock and Science in the Age of Sensibility and is a regular contributor to a number of publications, including Aeon, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and the New York Review of Books. She lives in...
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