Taking flight : the evolutionary story of life on the wing
Lev Parikian
Bok Engelsk 2023
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| Omfang | xxii, 282 sivua
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| Opplysninger | A bird flits overhead. It's an everyday occurrence, repeated hundreds, thousands, millions of times daily by creatures across the world. It's something so normal, so entirely taken for granted, that sometimes we forget how extraordinary it is. But take that in for a moment. This animal flies. It. Flies. The miracle of flight has evolved in hugely diverse ways, with countless variations of flapping and gliding, hovering and diving, murmurating and migrating. Conjuring lost worlds, ancient species and ever-shifting ecologies, this exhilarating new book is a mermerising encounter with fourteen flying species: from the first fluttering insects of 300 million years ago and the crested pterosaurus of the Mesozoic Era to the soaring wonder of the dragonflies, birds, bats and butterflies with which we share the planet today. Taking Flight is a mind-expanding feat of the imagination, a close encounter with flight in its myriad forms, urging us to look up and drink in the spectacle of these gravity-defying marvels that continue to shape life on Earth.
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| ISBN | 978-1-78396-703-2
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