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Language: en
Pages: 179
Authors: Lee Alan Dugatkin
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-04-04 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Capturing the essence of the origin and evolution of the so-called "degeneracy debates," over whether the flora and fauna of America (including Native Americans
Mr. Jefferson and the Giant Moose
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Pages: 179
Authors: Lee Alan Dugatkin
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-10-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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In the years after the Revolutionary War, the fledgling republic of America was viewed by many Europeans as a degenerate backwater, populated by subspecies weak
In Search of Jefferson's Moose
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Pages: 264
Authors: David G. Post
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In 1787, Thomas Jefferson, then the American Minister to France, had the "complete skeleton, skin & horns" of an American moose shipped to him in Paris and moun
Mr. Jefferson's Lost Cause
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Authors: Roger G. Kennedy
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Thomas Jefferson advocated a republic of small farmers--free and independent yeomen. And yet as president he presided over a massive expansion of the slaveholdi
How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog)
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Tucked away in Siberia, there are furry, four-legged creatures with wagging tails and floppy ears that are as docile and friendly as any lapdog. But, despite ap