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The domestication of the Musk-ox*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

Paul F. Wilkinson
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And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one would grow before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country than the whole race of politicians put together. (The King of Brobdingnag, in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, 1726.)

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Polar Record , Volume 15 , Issue 98 , May 1971 , pp. 683 - 690
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1971

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