Mr. Jefferson and the giant moose [electronic resource] : natural history in early America / Lee Alan Dugatkin.

9780226169194 (ebook) :

Chicago, [Ill.] ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2009.

1 online resource (xii, 166 p.) : ill., facsims., ports.

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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) were naturally weaker and feebler than species elsewhere in the world, this book chronicles Thomas Jefferson's efforts to counter French conceptions of American degeneracy, culminating in his sending of a stuffed moose to Buffon.

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September 21, 2015

Includes bibliographical references and index.