Platypus : the extraordinary story of how a curious creature baffled the world
" ... 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."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2001
Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C., 2001
Nonfiction
xiii, 226 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 21 cm
9781560989776, 1560989777
47657269
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'