| Description |
1 online resource |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on Sources; 1. Can't Tell the Players without a Scorecard; 2. Theme and Variations: Similarities and Differences among Nature's Flyers; 3. How to Fly?; 4. Gliding Animals: Flight without Power; 5. Insects: First to Fly; 6. Birds: The Feathered Flyers; 7. Bats: Wings in the Dark; 8. Pterosaurs: Bygone Dragons; 9. Pedestrians Descended from Flyers: Loss of Flight; 10. Unifying Themes?; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
On the Wing 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. David Alexander describes and evaluates both traditional and modern wing-origin theories in light of new fossil and genetic evidence. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Animal flight.
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Animal flight. |
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Wings (Anatomy) -- Evolution.
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Evolution. |
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Wings (Anatomy) |
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- General. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Alexander, David E., 1955- On the wing : insects, pterosaurs, birds, bats and the evolution of animal flight. Oxford, [England] ; New York, New York : Oxford University Press, ©2015 xi, 210 pages 9780199996773 |
| ISBN |
0199996784 (electronic book) |
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9780199996780 (electronic book) |
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9780199996773 |
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0199996776 |
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9780199996773 |
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