Comments on: Book review – Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life

By: Book review – Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? How Eighteenth-Century Science Disrupted the Natural Order | The Inquisitive Biologist

Tue, 28 Jan 2025 15:54:21 +0000

[…] Gibson’s 2015 Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? After dealing with biographies of Linnaeus and Buffon, and then Ragan’s Kingdoms, Empires, & Domains, her book was just crying out to be read […]

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By: Book review – Kingdoms, Empires, & Domains: The History of High-Level Biological Classification | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 17 Jan 2025 22:37:55 +0000

[…] of taxonomy. In the last two reviews, I zoomed in on two important historical figures, Linnaeus and Buffon. Obviously, trying to understand how the living world is organized occupied the minds of many more […]

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By: Year list – The Inquisitive Biologist’s top 5 reads of 2024 | The Inquisitive Biologist

Tue, 31 Dec 2024 10:16:53 +0000

[…] I read this book as part of a still-ongoing review series. Author Jason Roberts writes an epic history of taxonomy across three centuries that charts the lives, works, and legacy of Linnaeus and Buffon. Published by Riverrun, it quickly became a personal favourite for introducing me to a new intellectual hero. Read more… […]

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By: Book review – The Man Who Organized Nature: The Life of Linnaeus | The Inquisitive Biologist

Tue, 24 Dec 2024 23:02:13 +0000

[…] Ragan’s Kingdoms, Empires, & Domains and then, earlier this year, Jason Roberts’s Every Living Thing, the history of taxonomy put itself on my to-do list. What better book to start this three-part […]

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