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The most perfect thing : inside (and outside) a bird's egg Cover Image Book Book

The most perfect thing : inside (and outside) a bird's egg

Birkhead, Tim (author.).

Summary: Renowned 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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781632863713
  • ISBN: 1632863693
  • ISBN: 9781632863690
  • Physical Description: print
    xvi, 288 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First U.S. edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury, 2016.

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General Note:
"First published in Great Britain in 2016"--Title-page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-265) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Climmers 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 -- Lupton's legacy.

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Homer Public Library 598.1468 BIR (Text) 000134328 Nonfiction Available -

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