Ten thousand birds : ornithology since Darwin / Tim Birkhead, Jo Wimpenny, Bob Montgomerie.
Publisher: Boston, Massachusetts : Credo Reference, 2016Edition: [Enhanced Credo edition]Description: 1 online resource (20 entries) : 203 images ; digital filesContent type:- still image
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- 9781786840745
- 598.09 23
- QL672.7 .B568 2014
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 467-496).
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.
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 discipline focused almost exclusively on the anatomy, taxonomy, and classification of dead birds.