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Referenced as 'the famous novel' when discussing how the Iroquois wiped out the Mohicans during the beaver wars - 'this is, you know, the last of the Mohicans, the famous novel. The Iroquois wipe out the Mohicans.'

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Explicitly referenced as 'a fabulous book about mammals in Britain that have gone extinct' - cited when discussing the extinction of beavers in Britain and a possible 1789 beaver bounty in Yorkshire

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Described as 'a brilliant book by Adrienne Mayor, who's actually a kind of classicist stroke paleontologist' - the book argues that Native American stories about giant creatures may derive from their encounters with fossils of ancient animals like the giant beaver