The ascent of birds How modern science is revealing their story

John Reilly, 1952-

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Published
Exeter, UK : Pelagic Publishing 2019
Language
English
Main Author
John Reilly, 1952- (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