@article{716528,
      recid = {716528},
      author = {Dugatkin, Lee Alan,},
      title = {Mr. Jefferson and the giant moose : natural history in  early America /},
      publisher = {The University of Chicago Press,},
      address = {Chicago ;},
      pages = {xii, 166 p. :},
      year = {2009},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/716528},
}