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248 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780801880520
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 29 October 2004
Description
When the first platypus specimen reached England from Australia in 1799, the scientific community claimed that it was a hoax. On closer investigation, dubious European naturalists eventually declared it to be real, though in an age obsessed with c...
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248 pages • first pub 2001 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780801880520
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Publication date: 29 October 2004
Description
When the first platypus specimen reached England from Australia in 1799, the scientific community claimed that it was a hoax. On closer investigation, dubious European naturalists eventually declared it to be real, though in an age obsessed with c...