Jason Roberts: Every Living Thing | Buch

Cover: 9781984855206 | Every Living Thing | The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life | Buch

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"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"--

Erscheinungsjahr:	2024
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Biologie , Importe
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	Einband - fest (Hardcover)
ISBN-13:	9781984855206
ISBN-10:	1984855204
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Roberts, Jason
Hersteller:	Random House LLC US Random House
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Abbildungen:	70 BLACK-&-WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS
Maße:	236 x 161 x 40 mm
Von/Mit:	Jason Roberts
Erscheinungsdatum:	09.04.2024
Gewicht:	0,746 kg

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