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Cover 1 Title Page, Copyright 2 CONTENTS 6 Preface 8 CHAPTER 1 Yesterday￢ﾀﾙs Birds 22 CHAPTER 2 The Origin and Diversification of Species 64 CHAPTER 3 Birds on the Tree of Life 96 CHAPTER 4 Ebb and Flow 138 CHAPTER 5 Ecological Adaptations for Breeding 182 CHAPTER 6 Form and Function 222 CHAPTER 7 The Study of Instinct 266 CHAPTER 8 Behavior as Adaptation 308 CHAPTER 9 Selection in Relation to Sex 344 CHAPTER 10 Population Studies of Birds 376 CHAPTER 11 Tomorrow￢ﾀﾙs Birds 410 AFTERWORD 446 Appendix 1: Some Histories of Ornithology 452 Appendix 2: Five Hundred Ornithologists 455 Notes 464 References 488 Index 518 Image Credits 540 Publisher:Princeton University Press,Published:2014,ISBN:9781400848836,Related ISBN:9780691151977,Language:English,OCLC:870592174 Ten Thousand Birds provides a thoroughly engaging and authoritative history of modern ornithology, tracing how the study of birds has been shaped by a succession of visionary and often-controversial personalities, and by the unique social and scientific contexts in which these extraordinary individuals worked. This beautifully illustrated book opens in the middle of the nineteenth century when ornithology was a museum-based dis

Who reads Tim Birkhead Princeton: University Press, 2014 (524 S.); ISBN 9780691151977?

Author

Van Grouw, Hein

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780691151977

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Nature, History