Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
The snark is not merely entertainment — the portrait is central to the main thesis of Roberts’s engaging and thought-provoking book, one focused on the theatrical politics and often deeply troubling science that shape our definitions of life on Earth.
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Let me end by stressing how much this failed biology major enjoyed Roberts’s lively study of Linnaeus, Buffon and the later thinkers they influenced.
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A fluent and engaging account of the 18th-century origins of Darwinism before Darwin ... Mr. Roberts’s emphasis on Linnaeus’s and Buffon’s very different personalities sometimes obscures their shared views.
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