- Hardcover: 452 pages
- Publisher: OUP USA (21 May 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0195106083
- ISBN-13: 978-0195106084
- Product Dimensions: 26.3 x 18.5 x 3.7 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,066,027 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"When eggs hatch, neonatal birds range from naked, blind, highly altricial songbirds, totally dependent on parental warmth and feeding, through highly precocial megapods that use their fully functional beaks, legs, wings, and brains to dig their way out of incubation mounds, and raise themselves with no parental care. . . . In 17 technical chapters by 20 authors, this volume summarizes many current perspectives on the causes and consequences of this diversity, updating Margaret Nice's classic treatment of the field 40 years ago. . . . In a final, appendix-like chapter, the editors list 1117 estimates of a standard set of four avian growth parameters for 557 species, compiled and derived from the literature. They use these data to analyse growth rate patterns at different taxonomic levels in an earlier chapter. I expect others to use these data to test diverse hypotheses for years to come."--The Quarterly Review of Biology
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Although birds have a rather uniform body plan and physiology, they exhibit marked variation in development type, parental care, and rate of growth. This makes them ideal for studying and understanding evolutionary adaptation. Presenting an integrative perspective of organism biology, ecology, and evolution, this book is a case study in evolutionary diversification of life histories.
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Since the Late Triassic, the time of Protoavis texensis (Chatterjee 1991), over 200 million years of evolutionary diversification of birds have resulted in about 8900 living species. Read the first page
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this is a must for anyone is thinking about breeding birds or any studant.
it has everything you need to know from embryonic growth & development to data setbof avian growth parameters.
it has everything you need to know from embryonic growth & development to data setbof avian growth parameters.
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