- Eggs, Embryology, Birds, Reproduction
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.
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Warm, earnest, spare and classical in form.
- warmbleak
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- T. R. Birkhead
- First published
- 2016
- Pages
- 288
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, Bloomsbury Publishing
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781408851258
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