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The most perfect thing : inside (and outside) a bird's egg
- Title
- The most perfect thing : inside (and outside) a bird's egg / Tim Birkhead.
- Author
- Birkhead, Tim
- Publication
- New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury USA, 2016.
- ©2016
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| Text | Request in advance | QL675 .B57 2016g | Off-site |
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- Description
- xvi, 288 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 22 cm
- Summary
- Renowned ornithologist Tim Birkhead uses birds' eggs as wondrous portals into natural history, enlivened by the stories of naturalists and scientists, including Birkhead and his students, whose discoveries have advanced current scientific knowledge of reproduction.
- Subjects
- Note
- "First published in Great Britain 2016"--Title-page verso.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-265) and index.
- Contents
- Climmers and collectors -- Making shells -- The shape of eggs -- Colouring eggs : how? -- Colouring eggs : why? -- Much ado about albumen : the microbe war -- Yolk, ovaries and fertilisation -- Stupendious love : laying, incubation and hatching -- Epilogue : Lupton's legacy.
- ISBN
- 9781632863690
- 1632863693
- 9781632863713 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 99971749175
- OCLC
- ocn933287017
- 933287017
- SCSB-5886507
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries