Assertion: gila monster's life | /r/CapableOf | concentrate on the individual
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text: One of his foremost opponents was Georges Louis Buffon (1707–88), who favored a view of life that concentrated on the individual, then the species, as opposed to Linnaeus’s devotion first to the genus, then to the species; it was Buffon who insisted that species be defined in part as a “succession of individuals that can successfully reproduce with each other,” a benchmark that is still in general use today.