Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas348 | Jessica Riskin on Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Life as Creative Agency

Testing Giraffe Epigenetics

58:54–59:48 · 54s

Riskin reveals she’s co-initiated a study on epigenetic inheritance in giraffes—receiving cheek swabs from Namibia—to probe Lamarckian-style mechanisms.

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