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The Platypus Quarrel

Stuff You Missed in History Class

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Linnaeus and the Plastipus

Linnaeus and his contemporaries were also working from the idea that life was just as it had always been. So with that world view in mind, when europeans started encountering some of australia's more unique wild life, they really just did not know what to make of it. They defied categoriz you can see this confusion in one of the earliest written descriptions of the platipus in english.

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