The ascent of birds : how modern science is revealing their story / John Reilly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reilly, John, 1952- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Birds--Evolution.

Birds.

Birds--Speciation.

Birds--Dispersal.

Evolution (Biology).

Physical Description:

xxiii, 340 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Exeter, UK : Pelagic Publishing, [2018]

Contents:

Timeline

Geological ages

Prologue : Evolution of an idea

Part one. The non-passerines. The tinamou's story : death of a paradigm

The vegavis's story : the cradle of modern birds

The waterfowl's story : refugia, high living and sex

The hoatzin's story : an improbable voyage

The penguin's story : phenotype and environment

The storm petrel's story : sympatry versus allopatry

The albatross's story : the species problem

The godwit's story : quantum compasses

The buzzard's story : accidental speciation

The owl's story : nightlife

The oilbird's story : evolutionary distinctiveness

The hummingbird's story : a route of evanescence

The parrot's story : vicariance and dispersal

Part two. The passerines. The New Zealand wren's story : a novel foot

The manakin's story : why so many suboscines?

The sapayoa's story : odd one out

The scrubbird's story : where song began

The bowerbird's story : extended phenotypes

The crow's story : cognitive skills

The bird-of-paradise's story : sexual selection

The starling's story : structural colours

The thrush's story : sweepstake dispersals

The sparrow's story : hybridisation and speciation

The zebra finch's story : evolution of birdsong

The white-eye's story : supertramps and great speciators

The crossbill's story : adaptive radiation and coevolution

The tanager's story : a final flourish

Postscript : the sixth extinction.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 278-312) and index.

ISBN:

9781784271695

1784271691

OCLC:

1013594714

Publisher Number:

99977552552