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
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Show Notes
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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