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N2  - 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.
AB  - 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.
T1  - Ten Thousand Birds :Ornithology since Darwin /
DA  - 2014.
CY  - Princeton :
AU  - Birkhead, Tim.
AU  - Wimpenny, Jo.
AU  - Montgomerie, Robert D.
CN  - Credo Reference
CN  - QL684.A4 .B384 2014eb
PB  - Princeton University Press,
PP  - Princeton :
PY  - 2014.
ID  - 763828
KW  - Ornithology
KW  - Ornithology
KW  - Ornithology
KW  - Ornithologists.
KW  - Birds.
KW  - Evolution (Biology)
SN  - 9781400848836
SN  - 1400848830
SN  - 0691151970
SN  - 9780691151977
SN  - 9781306428880
SN  - 1306428882
TI  - Ten Thousand Birds :Ornithology since Darwin /
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