The Origin and Evolution of Birds

by Alan Feduccia

Hardcover, 1996

Status

Available

Publication

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.

Description

This text is a comprehensive and illustrated discussion of the origin of birds and of avian flight. Ornithologist and evolutionary biologist Alan Feduccia, author of Age of Birds, here draws on fossil evidence and studies of the structure and biochemistry of living birds to present knowledge and data on avian evolution and propose a model of this evolutionary process.

Awards

PROSE Award (Winner — 1996)

Language

Barcode

10522
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