Abnormality pumped Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire’s nads. The 19th-century French natural scientist was fascinated by things like a two-headed calf and a stillborn pig fetus with a single eye at the center of its face.
They were “monsters” in the medievalist’s Latin jargon: monstrare: to show, display. Saint-Hilaire said the development of these baby monsters sh…
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