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Book Review

Let’s talk about the ghosts in the room: the haunting language of biological differences

Haunting biology: science and indigeneity in Australia, by Emma Kowal, Durham & London, Duke University Press, 2023, 264 pp., $27.95 (Paperback), ISBN: 978-1-4780-2537-5, $104.95 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-1-4780-2059-2.

Received 09 Apr 2024, Accepted 26 Apr 2024, Published online: 02 May 2024

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