Taking Wing : Archaeopteryx and the Evolution of Bird Flight
by
Pat Shipman
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0684849658
ISBN-13
9780684849652
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Imprint
Touchstone
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 15th, 1999
Print length
340 Pages
Weight
518 grams
Dimensions
23.00 x 15.70 x 2.10 cms
Product Classification:
Zoology and animal sciencesZoology: VertebratesPalaeontology
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In 1861, just a few years after the publication of Charles Darwin''s On the Origin of Species, a scientist named Hermann von Meyer made an amazing discovery. Hidden in the Bavarian region of Germany was a fossil skeleton so exquisitely preserved that its wings and feathers were as obvious as its reptilian jaws and tail. This transitional creature offered tangible proof of Darwin''s theory of evolution.
Hailed as the First Bird, Archaeopteryx has remained the subject of heated debates for the last 140 years. Are birds actually living dinosaurs? Where does the fossil record really lead? Did flight originate from the "ground up" or "trees down"? Pat Shipman traces the age-old human desire to soar above the earth and to understand what has come before us. Taking Wing is science as adventure story, told with all the drama by which scientific understanding unfolds.
Hailed as the First Bird, Archaeopteryx has remained the subject of heated debates for the last 140 years. Are birds actually living dinosaurs? Where does the fossil record really lead? Did flight originate from the "ground up" or "trees down"? Pat Shipman traces the age-old human desire to soar above the earth and to understand what has come before us. Taking Wing is science as adventure story, told with all the drama by which scientific understanding unfolds.
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