[HN Gopher] Monotreme Dreams
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       Monotreme Dreams
        
       Author : Petiver
       Score  : 23 points
       Date   : 2023-02-10 21:48 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | angrygoat wrote:
       | This reminds me of the letter that Charles Darwin wrote from
       | Albany, Western Australia, when he briefly visited in 1836:
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       | "We staid (sic) there eight days and I do not remember since
       | leaving England having passed a more dull, uninteresting time,"
       | he wrote. "He who thinks like me will never wish to walk again in
       | so uninviting a country."[0]
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       | The south-west of Australia, the country of the Noongar people,
       | is now recognised as a world biodiversity hot-spot. And yet
       | Darwin couldn't see it: he had no sense of this place, despite
       | his vocation as a naturalist and scientist.
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       | [0] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-03-04/what-charles-
       | darwin-m...
        
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