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Ten thousand birds : ornithology since Darwin
- Title
- Ten thousand birds : ornithology since Darwin / Tim Birkhead, Jo Wimpenny, Bob Montgomerie.
- Author
- Birkhead, T. R.
- Publication
- Ornithology since Darwin
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2014]
- ©2014
- Supplementary Content
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | No restrictions | *R-RMRR QL672.7 .B568 2014 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 - Reference |
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- Description
- xvii, 524 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps; 26 cm
- Summary
- This beautifully illustrated book opens in the middle of the nineteenth century when ornithology was a museum-based discipline focused almost exclusively on the anatomy, taxonomy, and classification of dead birds. It describes how in the early 1900s pioneering individuals such as Erwin Stresemann, Ernst Mayr, and Julian Huxley recognized the importance of studying live birds in the field, and how this shift thrust ornithology into the mainstream of the biological sciences. The book tells the stories of eccentrics like Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen, a pathological liar who stole specimens from museums and quite likely murdered his wife, and describes the breathtaking insights and discoveries of ambitious and influential figures such as David Lack, Niko Tinbergen, Robert MacArthur, and others who through their studies of birds transformed entire fields of biology.
- Alternative Title
- 10,000 birds
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 467-496) and index.
- Contents
- Yesterday's birds -- The origin and diversification of species -- Birds on the tree of life -- Ebb and flow -- Ecological adaptations for breeding -- Form and function -- The study of instinct -- Behavior as adaptation -- Selection in relation to sex -- Population studies of birds -- Tomorrow's birds -- Afterword -- Appendix 1. Some histories of ornithology -- Appendix 2. Five hundred ornithologists.
- Call Number
- QL672.7
- ISBN
- 9780691151977
- 0691151970
- LCCN
- 2013939390
- OCLC
- 863172380
- Author
- Birkhead, T. R., author.
- Title
- Ten thousand birds : ornithology since Darwin / Tim Birkhead, Jo Wimpenny, Bob Montgomerie.
- Imprint
- Ornithology since Darwin
- Publisher
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2014]
- Copyright Date
- ©2014
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 467-496) and index.
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- Added Author
- Wimpenny, Jo, author.Montgomerie, Robert D. (Robert Dennis), author.
- Research Call Number
- *R-RMRR QL672.7 .B568 2014