The most perfect thing inside (and outside) a bird's egg
Renowned ornithologist Tim Birkhead uses birds' eggs as wondrous portals into natural history, enlivened by the stories of naturalists and scientists, including Birkhead and his students, whose discoveries have advanced current scientific knowledge of reproduction
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Bloomsbury
2017
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Renowned ornithologist Tim Birkhead uses birds' eggs as wondrous portals into natural history, enlivened by the stories of naturalists and scientists, including Birkhead and his students, whose discoveries have advanced current scientific knowledge of reproduction |
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| Beschreibung: | "First published in Great Britain 2016. This paperback edition first published in 2017"--Title page verso Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-265) and index Climmers and collectors -- Making shells -- The shape of eggs -- Colouring eggs : how? -- Colouring eggs : why? -- Much ado about albumen : the microbe war -- Yolk, ovaries and fertilisation -- Stupendious love : laying, incubation and hatching -- Epilogue : Lupton's legacy |
| Beschreibung: | xvi, 288 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations (some color) 20 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781408851272 140885127X 9781408851258 1408851253 1632863707 9781632863706 1408851261 |