So, dabble in Mayr’s Growth of Biological Thought (the opening 150 pages make the methodological points). See Marston Bates’s The Nature of Natural History. Think about Aristotle as a biologist. Look at Anderson’s Plants, Man and Life in methodolgical terms (the last chapter is the explicit summation, but it permeates the whole book. He too gravitated to anthropology as part of the maize work.). Think about how taxonomists think about their groups, so read about species but also genus, family, order, etc.

Celebrate the variation of french-fries or whatever. That’s what we have.

It would work so well.