On the wing: insects, pterosaurs, birds, bats and the evolution of animal flight
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Oxford University Press
[2015]
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | xi, 210 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9780199996773 |
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| adam_text | O N THE W I N G is the first book to take a comprehensive look at the evolution of flight in all four groups of powered flyers: insects, pterosaurs, birds, and bats.
With an accessible writing style grounded in rigorous research, author David Alexander breaks new ground in a field that has previously been confined to specialists. While birds have received the majority of attention from flight researchers, Alexander pays equal attention to all four groups of flyers--some-
thing that no other book on the subject has done before now. In a streamlined and captivating way, Alexander demonstrates the links between the tiny Vis-inch thrips and the enormous albatross with a 12-foot wingspan capable of crossing oceans.
The book delves into the fossil record of flyers enough to satisfy the budding paleontologist while also pleasing ornithologists and entomologists with its treatment of animal behavior, flapping mechanisms, and wing-origin theory. Alexander guides readers through the anomalies of the flying world: hovering hummingbirds, unexpected gliders (squirrels, for instance), and the flyers that went extinct (pterosaurs). Alexander also delves into wing-origin theory and explores whether birds entered the skies from the trees down, as gliders, or from the ground up, as runners, and uses the latest fossil evidence to present readers with an answer.
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments ix Note on Sources xi
1. Can t Tell the Players without a Scorecard 1
2. Theme and Variations: Similarities and Differences among Nature s Flyers 21
3. How to Fly? 39
4. Gliding Animals: Flight without Power 60
5. Insects: First to Fly 74
6. Birds: The Feathered Flyers 103
7. Bats: Wings in the Dark 130
8. Pterosaurs: Bygone Dragons 147
9. Pedestrians Descended from Flyers: Loss of Flight 164
10. Unifying Themes? 173
Bibliography 183 Index 197
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