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000764001 1001_ $$aBirkhead, Tim,$$eauthor.
000764001 24514 $$aThe most perfect thing :$$binside (and outside) a bird's egg /$$cTim Birkhead.
000764001 250__ $$aFirst U.S. edition.
000764001 264_1 $$aNew York, NY, USA :$$bBloomsbury USA,$$c2016.
000764001 264_4 $$c©2016
000764001 300__ $$axvi, 288 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :$$billustrations (some color) ;$$c22 cm
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000764001 500__ $$a"First published in Great Britain 2016"--Title-page verso.
000764001 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 221-265) and index.
000764001 5050_ $$aClimmers 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.
000764001 520__ $$aRenowned ornithologist Tim Birkhead uses birds' eggs as wondrous portals into natural history, enlivened by the stories of naturalists and scientists, including Birkhead and his students, whose discoveries have advanced current scientific knowledge of reproduction.
000764001 650_0 $$aBirds$$xEggs.
000764001 650_0 $$aBirds$$xEmbryology.
000764001 650_0 $$aBirds$$xReproduction.
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