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_aRoberts, Jason _c(President of Panmedia Corporation), _eauthor. |
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_aEvery living thing : _bthe great and deadly race to know all life / _cJason Roberts. |
246 | 3 | 0 | _aGreat and deadly race to know all life |
250 | _aFirst edition. | ||
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_aNew York : _bRandom House, _c[2024] |
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_axiv, 407 pages : _billustrations ; _c25 cm |
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_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia |
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_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier |
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_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"-- _cProvided by publisher. |
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_gIntroduction. _tSavants -- _gPrelude. _tThe mask and the veil -- _gPart I. _tThe great chain of being. _tOf the Linden tree ; _tA course in starvation ; _tThe salt-keeper's son ; _tVegetable lambs and barnacle trees ; _tSeveral bridegrooms, several brides ; _tThe greater gift of patience ; _tNow in blame, now in honor ; _tThe seven-headed hydra of Hamburg ; _tAn abridgment of the world entire ; _tLoathsome harlotry ; _tThe quarrel of the universals -- _gPart II. _tThis prodigious multitude. _tGoldfish for the queen ; _tCovering myself in dust and ashes ; _tThe only prize available ; _tDurable and even eternal ; _tBaobab-zu-zu ; _tSo many new and unknown parts ; _tGoverned by laws, governed by whim ; _tA general prototype ; _tBreaking the lens ; _tMy cold years ; _tThe price of time -- _gPart III. _tGod's registrar. _tGerminal, floreal, thermidor, messidor ; _tTransformism and castastrophism ; _tPlatypus ; _tLaughably like mine ; _tThe rhymes of the universe ; _tMost human of humans ; _tA large web or rather a network. |
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_aLinné, Carl von, _d1707-1778. |
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_aBuffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, _ccomte de, _d1707-1788. |
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_aBiology _xClassification _xHistory _y18th century. |
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