Taking Wing: Archaeopteryx and the Evolution of Bird FlightSimon and Schuster, 15 בינו׳ 1999 - 336 עמודים 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. |
תוכן
A Flight of Fancy | 13 |
Taking Wing | 21 |
Whats the Flap? | 47 |
Flight Plan | 68 |
Nesting Sites | 90 |
A Bird in the Hand | 117 |
Birds of a Feather | 139 |
On the Wing | 160 |
Dragons Fly | 202 |
Pathways to the Skies | 219 |
Flying High | 245 |
The Tangled Wing | 262 |
Notes | 281 |
Bibliography | 299 |
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One Fell Swoop | 174 |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
adaptations aerial aerodynamic air sacs airfoil Alan Feduccia anatomical ankle arboreal Archaeopteryx aspect ratio avian flight bats Beginnings of Birds bipedal bird flight bird's body weight bones bony claws Compsognathus Deinonychus dinosaurs downstroke Eichstätt endothermy evidence evolution of flight evolutionary evolving flight feather impressions Feduccia Figure fingers flapping flight fliers flight-muscle ratio flightless forelimb fossil function furcula gliding ground hallux heat hindlimb hoatzin Horner humerus Huxley hypothesis insect J. M. V. Rayner John Ostrom Koehl legs lift locomotion locomotor M. K. Hecht mammals Marden mechanism modern birds movement Museum nest Nopsca nosaurs origin of birds Padian paleontologists patagium perching Proavis pterodactyls pterosaurs Quetzalcoatlus reconstruction reflexed hallux Reprinted with permission reptiles reptilian Rietschel Ruben shape skeleton Solnhofen limestone species specimen sternum structure supracoracoideus tail takeoff terrestrial theory thermoregulation theropod theropod dinosaurs tion toes trees upstroke vertebrates Viohl Wellnhofer wing area wing flip wing loading wrist Yalden's
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