The Ascent of Birds : How Modern Science is Revealing their Story /: How Modern Science is Revealing their Story. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: John Reilly.
• Authors: Reilly, John
• Contents: Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Timeline; - Geological Ages; - Prologue: Evolution of an Idea PART ONE: NON-PASSERINES; 1. The Tinamou's Story: Death of a Paradigm; 2. The Vegavis's Story: The Cradle of Modern Birds; 3. The Waterfowl's Story: Refugia, High Living, and Sex; 4. The Hoatzin's Story: An Improbable Voyage; 5. The Penguin's Story: Phenotype and Environment; 6. The Storm Petrel's Story: Sympatry versus Allopatry; 7. The Albatross's Story: The Species Problem; 8. The Godwit's Story:Quantum Compasses; 9. The Buzzard's Story: Accidental Speciation; 10. The Owl's Story: Nightlife; 11. The Oilbird's Story: Evolutionary Distinctiveness; 12. The Hummingbird's Story: A Route of Evanescence; 13. The Parrot's Story: Vicariance and Dispersal PART TWO: PASSERINES; 14. The New Zealand Wren's Story: A Novel Foot; 15. The Manakin's Story: Why so many Suboscines?; 16. The Sapayoa's Story: Odd One Out; 17. The Scrubbird's Story: Where Song Began; 18. The Bowerbird's Story: Extended Phenotypes; 19. The Crows' Story: Cognitive Skills; 20. The Bird of Paradise's Story: Sexual Selection; 21. The Starling's Story: Structural Colours; 22. The Thrush's Story: Sweepstake Dispersals; 23. The Sparrow's Story: Hybridisation and Speciation; 24. The Zebra Finch's Story: Evolution of Birdsong; 25. The Crossbill's Story: Adaptive Radiation and Coevolution; 26. The White-eye's Story: Supertramps and Great Speciators; 27. The Tanager's Story: A Final Flourish Postscript: The Sixth Extinction; Appendix 1: Glossary; Dramatis Personae; Bibliography; Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Exeter : Pelagic Publishing
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (320 pages)
• Subjects: NATURE / Animals / Birds; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Zoology / Ethology (Animal Behavior); SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution; Wildlife: birds & birdwatching; Biogeography; Evolution; Animal behaviour; Taxonomy & systematics; Zoology: birds (ornithology)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781784271701; 1784271705
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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