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Ten Thousand Birds: Ornithology since Darwin

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Description for Ten Thousand Birds: Ornithology since Darwin Hardback. .
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. 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 ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
544
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
1896g
Number of Pages
544
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691151977
SKU
V9780691151977
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-19

About Tim Birkhead
Tim Birkhead is professor of zoology at the University of Sheffield, where he teaches and conducts research on the behavioral ecology of birds with particular focus on reproduction. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of London and his books include The Wisdom of Birds and Bird Sense. Jo Wimpenny was a postdoctoral research associate at the University of ... Read more

Reviews for Ten Thousand Birds: Ornithology since Darwin
Winner of the 2015 PROSE Award in History of Science, Medicine & Technology, Association of American Publishers One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2014 "A definitive, accessible and sumptuously illustrated primer of biological theory past and present... An inspiring and formidable resource for the historian as well as the fledgling scientist."
Helen Macdonald, Times Literary Supplement "Compulsively readable."
Ben Sheldon, Nature ... Read more

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