The ascent of birds How modern science is revealing their story
Book - 2019
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- Published
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Exeter, UK :
Pelagic Publishing
2019.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- Paperback edition
- Physical Description
- xxiii, 340 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-312) and index.
- ISBN
- 9781784272036
- Acknowledgements
- Illustrations
- Timeline
- Geological Ages
- Prologue: Evolution of an Idea
- Part 1. The 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 Penguins 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 2. The 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 Crow's 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 White-eye's Story: Supertramps and Great Spectators
- 26. The Crossbill's Story: Adaptive Radiation and Coevolution
- 27. The Tanager's Story: A Final Flourish
- Postscript; The Sixth Extinction
- Glossary
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Dramatis Personae
- Index