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Taking Wing: Archaeopteryx and the Evolution of Bird Flight (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780684849652)
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xIn 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.
Author: Pat Shipman
ISBN-10: 0684849658
ISBN-13: 9780684849652
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Language: English
Published: 01/15/1999
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.12lbs
Size: 9.12h x 5.96w x 0.83d
Review Citation(s):
New York Times 12/27/1998 pg. 20
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.
Author: Pat Shipman
ISBN-10: 0684849658
ISBN-13: 9780684849652
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Language: English
Published: 01/15/1999
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.12lbs
Size: 9.12h x 5.96w x 0.83d
Review Citation(s):
New York Times 12/27/1998 pg. 20
By Pat Shipman
xPat Shipman, an anthropologist at Pennsylvania State University, is the author of The Evolution of Racism and, with Alan Walker, The Wisdom of the Bones. She has written extensively on evolution and anthropology for such magazines as Discover, Natural History, New Scientist, and Focus. She lives in State College, Pennsylvani
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