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Every living thing Picture storybooks Without Rosalind Franklin genetic scienceIn 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