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The end of the auk The Last of Its Kind: The Search for the Great Auk and the Discovery of Extinction Gísli Pálsson Princeton University Press, 2024. 328 pp.
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An anthropologist recounts how a pair of 19th-century naturalists traced an elusive bird’s extinction in real time
Title: The end of the auk
The Last of Its Kind: The Search for the Great Auk and the Discovery of Extinction
Gísli Pálsson
Princeton University Press, 2024. 328 pp.
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An anthropologist recounts how a pair of 19th-century naturalists traced an elusive bird’s extinction in real time.
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