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Taking Wing
Archaeopteryx and the Evolution of Bird Flight
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Artikel-Nr:
9780684849652
Veröffentl:
1999
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
15.01.1999
Seiten:
340
Autor:
Pat Shipman
Gewicht:
553 g
Format:
229x152x21 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Pat Shipman, an anthropologist at Pennsylvania State University, is the author of The Evolution of Racism and, with Alan Walker, The Wisdom of the Bones. She has written extensively on evolution and anthropology for such magazines as Discover, Natural History, New Scientist, and Focus. She lives in State College, Pennsylvania.
In 1861, just a few years after the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, a scientist named Hermann von Meyer made an amazing discovery. Hidden in the Bavarian region of Germany was a fossil skeleton so exquisitely preserved that its wings and feathers were as obvious as its reptilian jaws and tail. This transitional creature offered tangible proof of Darwin's theory of evolution.
ContentsPrologue: A Flight of FancyChapter 1: Taking WingChapter 2: What's the Flap?Chapter 3: Flight PlanChapter 4: Nesting SitesChapter 5: A Bird in the HandChapter 6: Birds of a FeatherChapter 7: On the WingChapter 8: One Fell SwoopChapter 9: Dragons FlyChapter 10: Pathways to the SkiesChapter 11: Flying HighChapter 12: The Tangled WingNotesBibliographyIndex