Every Living Thing by Jason Roberts

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/28482 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Every Living Thing Author: Jason Roberts Narrator: David de Vries Format: mp3 Length: 14 hrs and 2 mins Release date: 04-09-24 Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 24 ratings Genres: Modern Publisher's Summary: In the eighteenth century, two men—exact contemporaries and polar opposites—dedicated their lives to the same daunting task: identifying and describing all life on Earth. 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. Each began his task believing it to be difficult but not impossible: How could the planet possibly hold more than a few thousand species—or as many could fit on Noah’s Ark?