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Jessica Riskin

Jessica Riskin is the Frances and Charles Field Professor of History at Stanford University, where she teaches modern European history and the history of science. She is the author of The Restless Clock and Science in the Age of Sensibility and is a regular contributor to a number of publications, including Aeon, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and the New York Review of Books. She lives in Berkeley, California.
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Biodiversity Titles for Higher Education

The International Day for Biological Diversity is a UN-sanctioned day celebrated on May 22nd that aims to raise awareness on the importance of biodiversity and the need to protect against species loss. “First coined by Walter G. Rosen in 1985, biological diversity—or biodiversity, as it is more commonly called—is defined as the “variety of life

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