b'Title page from Linnaeus Systema Natur, in which he introduced the classification Homo sapiens in 1758. On the 300th anniversary of his birthday, the Central Bank of Sweden minted a 200 krona coin with Linnaeus eye studying nature through a magnifying glass on the front and a butterfly with the Latin inscription To Learn the Ways of Nature on the back.A few centuries later, Francis Fukuyama, in The End of History and the Last Man, fell prey to a similar assumption about progress and the arc of history. Fukuyama argued that the fall of the Soviet Union marked an epochal threshold, whence free markets, representative democracy and consumer culture would forever be ascendant as the common heritage of mankind. He would have forgiven Linnaeus for thinking with similarly flawed finality about Homo sapiens role in the scheme things. After all, what could be better, higher, more evolved than a neoliberal world order created by the species named wise?14'