Ten Thousand Birds (eBook)

Ornithology since Darwin

Tim Birkhead, Jo Wimpenny, Bob Montgomerie (Autoren)

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2014
544 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-4883-6 (ISBN)

Infos

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 the field, and how this shift thrust ornithology into the mainstream of the biological sciences. The book tells the stories of eccentrics like Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen, a pathological liar who stole specimens from museums and quite likely murdered his wife, and describes the breathtaking insights and discoveries of ambitious and influential figures such as David Lack, Niko Tinbergen, Robert MacArthur, and others who through their studies of birds transformed entire fields of biology. Ten Thousand Birds brings this history vividly to life through the work and achievements of those who advanced the field. Drawing on a wealth of archival material and in-depth interviews, this fascinating book reveals how research on birds has contributed more to our understanding of animal biology than the study of just about any other group of organisms.

Autor

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 Sheffield during the writing of this book. Bob Montgomerie is professor of biology at Queen's University in Ontario, where he studies the evolution of plumage colors and sexual behavior in birds.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.3.2014
• Zusatzinfo: 94 color illus. 60 halftones.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Adaptation • Adaptation and Natural Selection • adaptive Radiation • Alexander Wetmore • Alfred Newton • Alfred Russel Wallace • anatomy • Archaeopteryx • Behavior • Behavioral Ecology • biodiversity • biogeography • biologist • Biology • bird • bird flight • bird intelligence • bird migration • Bird nest • British Birds (magazine) • British Ornithologists' Union • Brood parasite • Budgerigar • California condor • Career • central place foraging • Charles Darwin • Charles Otis Whitman • Charles Sibley • Cladistics • Correction (novel) • courtship • Darwin Medal • darwin's finches • David Lack • Dieldrin • Domestic pigeon • Donald Griffin • dutch resistance • Ecology • Edmund Selous • Eliot Howard • Entomology • E. O. Wilson • Eric Charnov • Eric Knudsen • Eric Pianka • Ernst Mayr • Erwin Stresemann • Ethology • Evolution • evolutionary biology • Extinct Birds (book) • female • Field guide • Fisher's fundamental theorem of natural selection • flightless bird • foraging • geneticist • Geoff Parker • George Romanes • Gerhard Heilmann • grandparent • great tit • group selection • Handbook • Handicap principle • Heritability • Homing pigeon • House sparrow • Inbreeding • insect • Jared Diamond • J. B. S. Haldane • Jean-Baptiste Lamarck • John Gerrard Keulemans • John James Audubon • John Jenner Weir • John Maynard Smith • John Ostrom • Jonathan Weiner • joseph grinnell • Julian Huxley • Kakapo • Karl Gegenbaur • Kirtland's Warbler • Konrad Lorenz • Lack's principle • lamarckism • Lecture • Mammal • mate choice • Mendelian Inheritance • model organism • Modern evolutionary synthesis • Monograph • moulting • Natural History • Neoaves • Nihoa finch • North America • Northern royal albatross • Objections to evolution • Optimal Foraging Theory • organism • Ornithology • Oskar Heinroth • Othniel Charles Marsh • Pale Male • paleontology • parasitism • Passenger pigeon • Passerine • Pesticide • Phylogenetics • Physiology • Pierce Brodkorb • plumage • Population control • Population cycle • Population Ecology • predation • Proavis • Psychology • Reproduction • Reproductive success • Richard Dawkins • Richard Levins • Richard Owen • Robert MacArthur • Robert Ridgway • Rollo Beck • Scientist • Sexual Dimorphism • Sexual Selection • Sexual selection in birds • Society of Vertebrate Paleontology • Sparrow • Speciation • sperm competition • Stork • Suggestion • Superiority (short story) • Systema Naturae • taxidermy • Taxon • Taxonomy (biology) • Technology • The Beak of the Finch • The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex • The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection • The Origin of Birds • The Peregrine Fund • the selfish gene • Thomas Henry Huxley • Thomas Hunt Morgan • Trade-off • warbler • waterfowl • Whitney South Sea Expedition • william bateson • willow ptarmigan • Witmer Stone • woodpecker • Wood warbler • year • Zoology
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-4883-0 / 1400848830
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-4883-6 / 9781400848836