The most perfect thing : inside (and outside) a bird's egg
Title:
The most perfect thing : inside (and outside) a bird's egg
Author:
Birkhead, T. R., author.
ISBN:
9781632863690
Personal Author:
Edition:
First U.S. edition.
Publication Information:
New York :
Bloomsbury USA, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,
2016.
Physical Description:
xvi, 288 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm
General Note:
Originally published: Great Britain, 2016.
Contents:
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--epilogue: Lupton's Legacy.
Abstract:
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.
