 Sarkar (2019: 375) claims that “the term ”biodiversity“ and the associated concept(s)” arose along with the discipline of conservation biology. This accords with the deflationist and eliminativist perspectives that the “biodiversity story” began around 1985, with conservation biology guiding the conceptual development of “biodiversity”, including its definition and values. This narrative does not address the earlier conceptual history that had articulated normative value of living variation, and so it raises the need for comparisons with that “variationist” framing.