Platypus : the extraordinary story of how a curious creature baffled the world

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Platypus : the extraordinary story of how a curious creature baffled the world

Ann Moyal

Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004

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"Johns Hopkins paperback edition" -- T.p. verso

Bibliography: p. 209-214

Includes index

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内容説明

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 classification, the category-defying platypus sparked heated debates across Europe for a century. In Platypus, Ann Moyal provides a unique biography of one of the world's most famously strange creatures and tells the incredible story of how it became the focus of the great scientific debates of the nineteenth century. Eloquent and concise, Platypus uncovers the earliest theories and latest discoveries about this delightfully odd member of the animal kingdom.

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA74237892
  • ISBN
    • 0801880521
  • 出版国コード
    us
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    Baltimore, Md.
  • ページ数/冊数
    xiii, 226 p., [8] p. of plates
  • 大きさ
    20 cm
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