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The race to identify all living creatures
Jason Roberts follows the scientific competition between Carl Linnaeus and Georges-Louis de Buffon to identify, describe, and catagorise all life on Earth
- Matt Elton
Published: October 9, 2024 at 7:00 AM
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In the 18th century, two men – Carl Linnaeus and Georges-Louis de Buffon – both independently took on a mammoth task. They set out to identify, describe and categorise all life on Earth. Speaking to Matt Elton, Jason Roberts charts the two naturalists' hugely different views and approaches – and how they shaped our view of the natural world for centuries.
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Jason Roberts is the author of Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life (Quercus, 2024)
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Matt EltonPodcast editor
Matt Elton is the podcast editor at HistoryExtra
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