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Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
- Publisher
- Quercus Publishing
- First published
- 2024
- ISBN
- 1529400473
What is this book about?
Every Living Thing is a joint biography of two 18th-century naturalists: the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus, known as the founding father of taxonomy, and his contemporary the Comte de Buffon.
Source: Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life
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