The Platypus and the Mermaid: and other figments of the classifying imagination.

Name: The Platypus and the Mermaid: and other figments of the classifying imagination.
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An absorbing account of taxonomy – as zoological classification and as anthropological study ” The author is well versed in the scholarly literature and in modern theories and presents a vivid and original account.” Walter Burkert.

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Harvard University Press, Octavo, paperback, illustrations.

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