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The Power of Life: The Invention of Biology and the Revolutionary Science of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Non-fiction • Color-coded chapters to everyThe 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 and, with it, a new science: biology. Yet for centuries, evolutionary theorists have endeavored to discredit Lamarck and his theory of self transforming organisms, rejecting the idea that animals play an active