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 | Mr. Jefferson and the Giant Moose: Natural History in Early America (1st Edition) by Lee Alan Dugatkin Hardcover, 184 Pages, Published 2009 ISBN-10: 0-226-16914-6 / 0226169146 ISBN-13: 978-0-226-16914-9 / 9780226169149 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 and feeble. Chief among these naysayers was the French Count and world-renowned naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc de Buffon, who wrote that | |