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📱 eBook en inglés TAKING FLIGHT

How Animals Learned to Fly and Transformed Life on Earth

LEV PARIKIAN

ELLIOTT & THOMPSON - 9781783967049

Biología Reptiles. Aves. Ornitología

Sinopsis de TAKING FLIGHT

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2023* This book soars… Parikian is a nature writer at the top of his game. Steve Brusatte, author of The Rise and Fall of the DinosaursThis is the miracle of flight as youve never seen it before: the evolutionary story of life on the wing.A bird flits overhead. Its an everyday occurrence, repeated hundreds, thousands, millions of times daily by creatures across the world. Its something so normal, so entirely taken for granted, that sometimes we forget how extraordinary it is. But take that in for a moment. This animal flies. It. Flies. The miracle of flight has evolved in hugely diverse ways, with countless variations of flapping and gliding, hovering and diving, murmurating and migrating. Conjuring lost worlds, ancient species and ever-shifting ecologies, this exhilarating new book is a mesmerising encounter with fourteen flying species: from the first fluttering insect of 300 million years ago to the crested pterosaurs of the Mesozoic Era, from hummingbirds that co-evolved with rainforest flowers to the wonders of dragonfly, albatross, pipistrelle and monarch butterfly with which we share the planet today. Taking Flight is a mind-expanding feat of the imagination, a close encounter with flight in its myriad forms, urging us to look up and drink in the spectacle of these gravity-defying marvels that continue to shape life on Earth.[Lev Parikian] brings a sense of infectious enthusiasm to his account of the evolution of flight in the natural world, from mayflies and bees to bats and hummingbirds by way of pterosaurs and archaeopteryx, combining a wealth of information with a sense of wonder.The ObserverThis accessible account of the animal kingdoms development of flight exhibits a laymans enthusiasm for an everyday wonder.Rebecca Foster, TLS

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Editorial: Elliott & Thompson

ISBN: 9781783967049

Idioma: Inglés

Fecha de lanzamiento: 04/05/2023

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