Tag: Jessica Riskin

Statue en bronze de Lamarck à Paris. France

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 3, 2026

Categorized
Education, Evolution

Tagged
August Weismann (1834–1914), Charles Darwin (1809–1882), Evolution methods, Featured, Francis Crick (1916-2004), Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744–1829), Jessica Riskin, Lamarckism, Power of Life (book 2026)}

Change: Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Is No Longer a Figure of Fun

_{It is suddenly becoming acceptable for mainstream academics to platform alternatives to Darwin’s theory} _{Denyse O'Leary
November 3, 2026

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Education, Evolution}

History professor Jessica Riskin sees neo-Darwinism as starting to give way to awareness of a variety of paths for evolution.

Arguments Against Free Will Viewed as Junk Science?

_{“No free will” used to be taken for granted as “what science says” but incisive critiques are beginning to pop up} _{Denyse O'Leary
June 20, 2025

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Free will, Science}

Perhaps the fact that Sapolsky opposes free will somehow makes his viewpoint more “scientific” in the eyes of many than the viewpoint of someone who, with equally good arguments, supports it.