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02906aam a22004218i 4500 001 CEB9F1B8F63611EE80258AC022ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240409010228 008 231114t20242024nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2023024942 020 $a 1984855204 020 $a 9781984855206 035 $a (OCoLC)1385294347 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d IUO $d JIU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 100 1 $a Roberts, Jason. 245 10 $a Every living thing : $b the great and deadly race to know all life / $c Jason Roberts. 246 30 $a Great and deadly race to know all life 250 $a First edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Random House, $c [2024] 300 $a xiv, 407 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "In the 18th century, two men dedicated their lives to the same daunting task: identifying and describing all life on Earth. Their approaches could not have been more different. Carl Linnaeus, a pious Swedish doctor with a huckster's flair, believed that life belonged in tidy, static categories. Georges-Louis de Buffon, an aristocratic polymath and keeper of France's royal garden, viewed life as a dynamic swirl of complexities. Both began believing their work to be difficult, but not impossible--how could the planet possibly hold more than a few thousand species? Stunned by life's diversity, both fell far short of their goal. But in the process they articulated starkly divergent views on nature, on humanity's role in shaping the fate of our planet, and on humanity itself. The rivalry between these two unique, driven individuals created reverberations that still echo today. Linnaeus, with the help of acolyte explorers he called "apostles" (only half of whom returned alive), gave the world such concepts as mammal, primate and homo sapiens--but he also denied species change and promulgated racist pseudo-science. Buffon coined the term reproduction, formulated early prototypes of evolution and genetics, and argued passionately against prejudice. It was a clash that, during their lifetimes, Buffon seemed to be winning. But their posthumous fates would take a very different turn"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a LinneÌ, Carl von, $d 1707-1778. 600 10 $a Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, $c comte de, $d 1707-1788. 650 0 $a Biology $x History $x History $y 18th century. 941 $a 9 952 $l DAPG173 $d 20240724020848.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240717024400.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20240702025429.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20240604014859.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20240509013727.0 952 $l DBPE173 $d 20240507010339.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20240503010552.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20240502010737.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20240409012946.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=CEB9F1B8F63611EE80258AC022ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b JIUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search