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

Ann Moyal

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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書名 Platypus : the extraordinary story of how a curious creature baffled the world
著作者等 Moyal, Ann Mozley
Moyal Ann
出版元 Johns Hopkins University Press
刊行年月 2004
ページ数 xiii, 226 p., [8] p. of plates
大きさ 20 cm
ISBN 0801880521
NCID BA74237892
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言語 英語
出版国 アメリカ合衆国
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