Jessica Riskin on Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, the 18th-century French botanist who forever changed biology on a bet.
https://lithub.com/on-a-bet-jean-baptiste-lamarck-invented-the-way-we-still-identify-plants/
On a Bet, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Invented the Way We Still Identify Plants

If you’re an herbivore, constantly in danger of being devoured by a lion, you must do a lot of running, and you become slender and swift. If an idiot friend has attempted to lift you by the head, c…

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