Every Living Thing

The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life

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<b>PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • An epic, extraordinary account of scientific rivalry and obsession in the quest to survey all of life on Earth</b><br><br><b>“[An] engaging and thought-provoking book, one focused on the theatrical politics and often deeply troubling science that shape our definitions of life on Earth.”—<i>The New York Times</i><br><br>“A fluent and engaging account of the eighteenth-century origins of Darwinism before Darwin.”—<i>The Wall Street Journal</i> </b><br><b><br>WINNER OF THE PEN/E.O. WILSON LITERARY SCIENCE WRITING AWARD • A <i>KIRKUS REVIEWS </i>BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR</b><br><br>In the eighteenth century, two men—exact contemporaries and polar opposites—dedicated their lives to the same daunting task: identifying and describing all life on Earth. 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. Each began his task believing it to be difficult but not impossible: How could the planet possibly hold more than a few thousand species—or as many could fit on Noah’s Ark?<br><br>Both fell far short of their goal, but in the process they articulated starkly divergent views on nature, the future of the Earth, and humanity itself. Linnaeus gave the world such concepts as <i>mammal, primate,</i> and <i>Homo sapiens,</i> but he also denied that species change and he promulgated racist pseudoscience. Buffon formulated early prototypes of evolution and genetics, warned of global climate change, and argued passionately against prejudice. The clash of their conflicting worldviews continued well after their deaths, as their successors contended for dominance in the emerging science that came to be called <i>biology</i>.<br><br>In <i>Every Living Thing,</i> Jason Roberts weaves a sweeping, unforgettable narrative spell, exploring the intertwined lives and legaci

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EAN

9781984855220

Sprache

Englisch

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Taschenbuch

Maße

200 x 131 x 27 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2025

Verlag / Hersteller

Random House LLC US