348 | Jessica Riskin on Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Life as Creative Agency
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Episode: 348 | Jessica Riskin on Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Life as Creative Agency
Pub date: 2026-03-23
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"Lamarkism" is a term often attached to a seemingly discredited idea in evolutionary biology: that one organism could acquire characteristics (e.g., becoming stronger through exercise) that would then be inherited by its descendants. This is a different story than the one…
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