The Origin of Birds
Title | The Origin of Birds PDF eBook |
Author | Gerhard Heilmann |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 222 |
Release | 1926 |
Genre | Birds |
ISBN |
Feathered Dinosaurs
Title | Feathered Dinosaurs PDF eBook |
Author | John A. Long |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | 206 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0195372662 |
"In this book, palaeontologist and popular science author John Long unravels the mysteries of the origin of birds and the evolution of flight. He details the transition from small, feathered dinosaur to primitive flying bird - a shift that is now widely accepted as an anatomically seamless evolutionary event."--Jacket.
The Origin and Evolution of Birds
Title | The Origin and Evolution of Birds PDF eBook |
Author | Alan Feduccia |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Total Pages | 490 |
Release | 1999-01-01 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 9780300078619 |
An exploration of all that is known about the origin of birds and of avian flight. It draws on fossil evidence and studies of the structure and biochemistry of living birds to present knowledge and data on avian evolution and to propose a new model of this evolutionary process.
The Origin of Birds and the Evolution of Flight
Title | The Origin of Birds and the Evolution of Flight PDF eBook |
Author | Kevin Padian |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 98 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Animal flight |
ISBN | 9780940228146 |
The Origin of Birds
Title | The Origin of Birds PDF eBook |
Author | Gerhard Heilmann |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 209 |
Release | 1972 |
Genre | Birds |
ISBN |
Glorified Dinosaurs
Title | Glorified Dinosaurs PDF eBook |
Author | Luis M. Chiappe |
Publisher | Wiley-Liss |
Total Pages | 286 |
Release | 2007-02-02 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN |
Describes discoveries of early birds and bird ancestors and discusses the evolution of modern birds from dinosaurs.
How Birds Evolve
Title | How Birds Evolve PDF eBook |
Author | Douglas J. Futuyma |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | 320 |
Release | 2024-10-29 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0691264635 |
"Why are male birds often so brightly colored? Why do some birds lay more eggs than others? Will bird species adapt to climate change? In How Birds Evolve, Douglas Futuyma invites readers into the amazing world of bird evolution to answer these and other questions. Futuyma's goal in this book is not to offer a comprehensive evolutionary history of birds, but to explore how the processes of evolution produced the distinctive features and behaviors we observe in birds today as well as their impressive diversity. Using one or two birds per chapters as a lens into broader questions, Futuyma explores how a bird's evolutionary history helps us understand the diversity of species and the bird tree of life and how natural selection explains most of the characteristics of birds from how populations adapt to sexual selection and birds' amazing social behavior. Futuyma concludes by discussing the future of birds, particularly patterns of extinction and whether they can adapt to a changing climate. Ultimately, Futuyman wants readers to see that evolutionary biology helps us to better understand birds, and that the reverse is also true: studies of birds have informed almost every aspect of evolutionary biology, from Darwin to today"--