Birds and us : a 12,000 year history, from cave art to conservation /
by Birkhead, Tim.
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BookPublisher: UK : Viking, 2022Description: xx, 441 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), map (colour) ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780241460498 (hbk.) :; 0241460492 (hbk.) :.Classification number: 598 BIRSubject(s): Birds | Human-animal relationships | Birds in art | Birds -- Religious aspects | Popular Science | Popular Science and Nature | Biology, life sciences | Zoology: birds (ornithology) | Nature & the natural world: general interest | Wildlife: birds & birdwatching: general interestSummary: Since the dawn of human history, birds have stirred our imagination, inspiring and challenging our ideas about science, faith, art and philosophy. Looking to the skies above, we have variously worshipped them as gods, hunted them for sustenance, adorned ourselves in their feathers, studied their wings to engineer flight and, more recently, attempted to protect them. In 'Birds and Us', ornithologist Tim Birkhead takes us on an epic and dazzling journey through this mutual history with birds, from the ibises mummified and deified by Ancient Egyptians to Renaissance experiments on woodpecker anatomy, from Victorian obsessions with egg collecting to the present fight to save endangered species and restore their habitats. Weaving in stories from his own life as a scientists, this book is a culmination of a lifetime's research.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Since the dawn of human history, birds have stirred our imagination, inspiring and challenging our ideas about science, faith, art and philosophy. Looking to the skies above, we have variously worshipped them as gods, hunted them for sustenance, adorned ourselves in their feathers, studied their wings to engineer flight and, more recently, attempted to protect them. In 'Birds and Us', ornithologist Tim Birkhead takes us on an epic and dazzling journey through this mutual history with birds, from the ibises mummified and deified by Ancient Egyptians to Renaissance experiments on woodpecker anatomy, from Victorian obsessions with egg collecting to the present fight to save endangered species and restore their habitats. Weaving in stories from his own life as a scientists, this book is a culmination of a lifetime's research.
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