Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10527901 | Endeavour | 2013 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
During the preparation of an exhibition in Pavia dedicated to the centennial anniversary of the death of the Italian Pathologist Paolo Mantegazza, a strange cheratinic horn was found at the Museum for the History of the University of Pavia labelled as 'spur of a cock transplanted into an ear of a cow.' After some historical investigation, we found this strange object was at the centre of a scientific correspondence between Mantegazza and Charles Darwin, who made reference to it in his book The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication.
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Authors
Carla Garbarino, Paolo Mazzarello,