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The dramatic, globe-spanning and meticulously-researched story of two scientific rivals and their race to survey all life.
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, ever-changing 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.
两个科学竞争对手以及他们竞相调查所有生命的戏剧性、跨越全球和经过精心研究的故事。
18 世纪，两个人将一生奉献给了同一个艰巨的任务：识别和描述地球上的所有生命。 他们的方法截然不同。 卡尔·林奈 (Carl Linnaeus) 是一位虔诚的瑞典医生，具有小贩的天赋，他相信生命属于整洁、静态的类别。
乔治·路易·德·布冯是一位贵族博学者，也是法国皇家花园的守护者，他认为生活是一个充满活力、不断变化的复杂漩涡。 两人都开始相信他们的工作很困难，但并非不可能——这个星球怎么可能拥有超过几千个物种？ 两人都对生活的多样性感到震惊，但都远远没有达到他们的目标。 但在此过程中，他们对自然、人类在塑造地球命运中的作用以及人类本身表达了截然不同的观点。
这两个独特、有进取心的人之间的竞争所产生的影响至今仍在回响。 林奈在他称为“使徒”的助手探险家（其中只有一半活着回来）的帮助下，向世界提出了哺乳动物、灵长类动物和智人等概念，但他也否认物种变化并传播了种族主义伪科学。 布丰创造了“繁殖”一词，提出了进化论和遗传学的早期原型，并热情地反对偏见。
在他们有生之年，这是一场冲突，布冯似乎获胜了。 但他们死后的命运却发生了截然不同的转变。
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