Platypus

副标题: The Extraordinary Story of How a Curious Creature Baffled the World

ISBN: 9780801880520

出版社: Johns Hopkins University Press

出版年: 2004-11-9

页数: 248

定价: USD 20.00

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

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.

作者简介

莫雅（Ann Moyal）是知名的澳洲科學史專家，在澳洲的許多大學執教或擔任研究員。她發表的論文著述極多，同時也是澳洲獨立研究學者協會的創辦人與前任總裁。現居坎培拉。

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