β Scribed by Richard Conniff
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The story of bold adventurers who risked death to discover strange life forms in the farthest corners of planet Earth.Beginning with Linnaeus, a colorful band of explorers made it their mission to travel to the most perilous corners of the planet and bring back astonishing new life forms. They attracted followers ranging from Thomas Jefferson, who laid out mastodon bones on the White House floor, to twentieth-century doctors who used their knowledge of new species to conquer epidemic diseases. Acclaimed science writer Richard Conniff brings these daredevil "species seekers" to vivid life. Alongside their globe-spanning tales of adventure, he recounts some of the most dramatic shifts in the history of human thought. At the start, everyone accepted that the Earth had been created for our benefit. We werenβt sure where vegetable ended and animal began, we couldnβt classify species, and we didnβt understand the causes of disease. But all that changed as the species seekers...
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