Ten Thousand Birds

Editor/Author Birkhead, Tim, Wimpenny, Jo and Montgomerie, Bob
Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press

Price: Core Collection Only This title is available on our Core subscription collections and is not available for individual purchase.
ISBN: 978-0-69-115197-7
Category: Animals & Veterinary Medicine
Image Count: 203
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents

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.

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Preface
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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
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