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Platypus : the extraordinary story of how a curious creature baffled the world / Ann Moyal.
- Title
- Platypus : the extraordinary story of how a curious creature baffled the world / Ann Moyal.
- Author
- Moyal, Ann, 1926-2019
- Publication
- Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001.
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| Status | Vol/Date | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Text | Request in advance | QL737.M72 M68 2001 2001 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xii, 226 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.); 20 cm.
- Summary
- "... story of a biological riddle that confounded scientists for nearly ninety years, challenging theories of creationism, evolution, and the classification of species along the way."--Dust jacket.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 210-218) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- This Highly Interesting Novelty' -- The Frenchmen's Gaze -- Marshalling the Animals -- The Wrangling Scientists -- The Land of Contrarieties -- The First Hard Look -- The Paper War -- Darwin's Platypus -- To the Antipodes -- The Clash of Titans -- Solving the Mystery -- The New Men -- 'The Platypus Man' -- The Platypus Goes to War -- 'The Animal of All Time'.
- ISBN
- 1560989777 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2001020892
- OCLC
- 47657269
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library