Ten Thousand Birds : : Ornithology since Darwin /

Ten Thousand Birds : : Ornithology since Darwin / / Tim Birkhead, Bob Montgomerie, Jo Wimpenny.

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 individu...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Birkhead, Tim,
Montgomerie, Bob,
Wimpenny, Jo,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©2014
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (544 p.) :; 94 color illus. 60 halftones.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Chapter 1. Yesterday's Birds
  • Chapter 2. The Origin and Diversification of Species
  • Chapter 3. Birds on the Tree of Life
  • Chapter 4. Ebb and Flow
  • Chapter 5. Ecological Adaptations for Breeding
  • Chapter 6. Form and Function
  • Chapter 7. The Study of Instinct
  • Chapter 8. Behavior as Adaptation
  • Chapter 9. Selection in Relation to Sex
  • Chapter 10. Population Studies of Birds
  • Chapter 11. Tomorrow's Birds
  • Afterword
  • Appendix 1: Some Histories of Ornithology
  • Appendix 2: Five Hundred Ornithologists
  • Notes46
  • References
  • Index
  • Image Credits

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