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000716528 1001_ $$aDugatkin, Lee Alan,$$d1962-
000716528 24510 $$aMr. Jefferson and the giant moose :$$bnatural history in early America /$$cLee Alan Dugatkin.
000716528 260__ $$aChicago ;$$aLondon :$$bThe University of Chicago Press,$$c2009.
000716528 300__ $$axii, 166 p. :$$bill. ;$$c24 cm.
000716528 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 153-158) and index.
000716528 5050_ $$a"Dictatorial powers of the botanical gentlemen of Europe" -- The count's degenerate America -- "Noxious vapors and corrupt juices" -- "Not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting" -- "Geniuses which adorn the present age" -- Enter the moose -- Thirty-seven-pound frogs and Patagonian giants -- Extracting the "tapeworm of Europe" from our brain.
000716528 520__ $$aCapturing the essence of the origin and evolution of the so-called "degeneracy debates," over whether the flora and fauna of America (including Native Americans) were naturally weaker and feebler than species elsewhere in the world, this book chronicles Thomas Jefferson's efforts to counter French conceptions of American degeneracy, culminating in his sending of a stuffed moose to Buffon.
000716528 60010 $$aJefferson, Thomas,$$d1743-1826$$xKnowledge and learning.
000716528 60010 $$aBuffon, Georges Louis Leclerc,$$ccomte de,$$d1707-1788$$xAttitudes.
000716528 650_0 $$aDegeneration$$xEnvironmental aspects$$zAmerica$$xHistoriography$$y18th century.
000716528 650_0 $$aHuman beings$$xEffect of environment on$$zAmerica.
000716528 650_0 $$aLife sciences$$xHistory$$y18th century.
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