On a Bet, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Invented the Way We Still Identify Plants Jessica Riskin on the 18th-Century French Botanist Who Changed Biology Forever 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, causing a career-changing neck injury (unless it wa...