Everything you need to understand or teach Every Living Thing by Jason Roberts.
Every Living Thing by Jason Roberts chronicles the parallel lives and conflicting legacies of two 18th-century naturalists born in 1707: Carl Linnaeus of Sweden and Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, of France. Linnaeus developed a rigid taxonomic system based on fixed categories and biblical creation that became institutionally dominant despite its theoretical flaws and its role in encoding racist and sexist hierarchies into scientific classification. Buffon, by contrast, proposed a fluid, complexity-based approach to nature that anticipated evolutionary theory, genetics, and modern biology, yet was largely forgotten despite being theoretically correct. Through this biographical comparison, Roberts explores how scientific systems reflect their creators' biases, how institutional power shapes which ideas survive, and how the tension between practical standardization and theoretical accuracy continues to challenge biological classification today.
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