Birds and Us : : A 12,000-Year History from Cave Art to Conservation / / Tim Birkhead.
From award-winning author and ornithologist Tim Birkhead, a sweeping history of the long and close relationship between birds and humansSince the dawn of human history, birds have stirred our imagination, inspiring and challenging our ideas about science, faith, art, and philosophy. We have worshipp...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (496 p.) :; 63 color + 70 b/w illus. 2 maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Plates
- Preface
- 1 Of Peculiar Interest: Neolithic Birds
- 2 Inside the Catacombs: The Birds of Ancient Egypt
- 3 Talking Birds: The Beginnings of Science in Greece and Rome
- 4 Manly Pursuits: Hunting and Conspicuous Consumption
- 5 Renaissance Thinking: The Parts of Birds
- 6 The New World of Science: Francis Willughby and John Ray Discover Birds
- 7 Depending on Birds: Inconspicuous Consumption
- 8 The End of God in Birds: Darwin and Ornithology
- 9 A Dangerous Type of Bigamy: Killing Time
- 10 Watching Birds: And Seeing the Light
- 11 A Boom in Bird Studies: Behaviour, Evolution and Ecology
- 12 Ghost of the Great Auk: Third Mass Extinction
- Epilogue
- List of Birds Mentioned in the Text
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index