Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life by Jason Roberts #foliosociety they can’t know that everyone

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Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life by Jason Roberts #foliosociety they can’t know that everyoneThe dramatic, globe spanning and meticulously researched story of two scientific rivals and their race to survey all life. 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