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That the bone didn't attract greater interest is [-1-], for its appearance came at a time when America was in a froth of excitement about the remains of large, ancient animals. The cause of this froth was a strange assertion by the great French naturalist the Comte de Buffon—he of the heated spheres from the previous chapter—[---2---]. America, Buffon wrote in his vast and much-[-3-] Histoire Naturelle, was a land where the water was stagnant, the soil [-4-] , and the animals without size or vigor, their constitutions weakened by the “noxious vapors” that rose from its rotting swamps and [-5-] forests. In such an environment even the native Indians lacked virility. “They have no beard or body hair,” Buffon sagely confided, “and no ardor for the female.” Their [-6-] organs were “small and feeble.”

Buffon's observations found surprisingly eager support among other writers, especially those whose conclusions were not complicated by actual [-7-] with the country. A Dutchman named Comeille de Pauw announced in a popular work called Recherches Philosophiques sur les Américains that native American males were not only reproductively unimposing, but “so [-8-] in virility that they had milk in their breasts.” [---9---]
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