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The Life of the Robin
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Artikel-Nr:
9781843681304
Veröffentl:
2016
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.06.2016
Seiten:
304
Autor:
David Lack
Gewicht:
302 g
Format:
188x123x27 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
David Lack, FRS (1910-1973) has been called Britain's most influential ornithologist. Amongst other achievements he developed what is now known as Lack's Principle which explained the evolution of avian clutch sizes in terms of individual selection as opposed to the competing contemporary idea that they had evolved for the benefit of species (also known as group selection); this has been considered a major development in Darwinian evolution His pioneering life-history studies of the living bird helped in changing the nature of ornithology from what was then a collection-oriented field. He was a longtime director of the Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology at the University of Oxford.
A new edition of the original biography of the robin, Britain‿s favourite bird, full of surprises and wit and with added postscript on recent ornithological advances.