The rise of birds: 225 million years of evolution.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. Quarto, illustrations, very good copy in dustwrapper. More
BIRDS - Evolutionary Biology
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The rise of birds: 225 million years of evolution.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, (2015. second edition). Quarto, dustwrapper, black and white illustrations. A small set of fossilised bones discovered almost thirty years ago led palaeontologist Sankar Chatterjee on a lifelong quest to understand their place in the history of life. They were clearly the bones of something unusual..... More
Evolution of flightlessness in Rails (Gruiformes: Rallidae): phylogenetic, ecomorphological, and ontogenetic perspectives.
Washington D C: American Ornithologists' Union, 2003. Octavo, paperback, illustrations. WAS $20. American Ornithologists' Union Monograph number 59. More
Stray feathers: reflections on the structure, behaviour and evolution of birds.
Collingwood: CSIRO Publishing, 2011. Quarto, paperback, black and white illustrations, line drawings. Details some of the remarkable adaptations of Australian birds. A brief introduction describes how evolution shapes form and function, followed by a series of vignettes illustrating the wondrous variety of forms and functions shaped by evolution. For example..... More
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