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How Birds Evolve: What Science Reveals about Their Origin, Lives, and Diversity: A Book Review by a Non-Science Person

November 2, 2021 by Donna No Comments

Doug Futuyma believes in science and in the scientific basis...

Reading time: 9 min

Birding

Do birds avoid predators because of culture?

December 15, 2015 by Greg 2 Comments

Tradeoffs in behavior, and plasticity We assume natural selection has...

Reading time: 7 min

Birds

How The Bird Got Its Beak

May 19, 2015 by Greg 1 Comment

Birds are a subset of dinosaurs (See: Honey, I Shrunk...

Reading time: 7 min

Birds

Honey, I Shrunk The Dinosaurs!

August 19, 2014 by Greg 6 Comments

There is a fantastic paper just out in Science: “Sustained...

Reading time: 7 min

Birds

Grallards: New Zealand’s Next Extinction or Newest Species?

July 24, 2014 by Duncan 2 Comments

Yesterday i introduced you, gentle reader, to the lovely work...

Reading time: 6 min

Birds

Being A Living Fossil Evolved Multiple Times

June 17, 2014 by Greg No Comments

It has been discovered that largosity and flightlessness, which perhaps...

Reading time: 3 min

Birds

A Strategic Arms Race Among Birds

February 18, 2014 by Greg 2 Comments

The vast majority of the 10,000+ living species of birds...

Reading time: 5 min

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It may be hard to swallow, but Bumpus could get bumped to the back burner

March 19, 2013 by Greg 4 Comments

In 1898, Hermon Bumpus published a paper about change in...

Reading time: 8 min

Birding

Why Birders Dig Darwin

February 12, 2013 by Mike 9 Comments

February 12 is Darwin Day, the birthday of the brilliant...

Reading time: 4 min

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Land Bridges are Back in Season!

September 12, 2012 by Duncan 4 Comments

Ideas, like catwalk fashions, come and go in cycles, and...

Reading time: 3 min

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How Birds Evolve: What Science Reveals about Their Origin, Lives, and Diversity: A Book Review by a Non-Science Person

Do birds avoid predators because of culture?

How The Bird Got Its Beak

Honey, I Shrunk The Dinosaurs!

Grallards: New Zealand’s Next Extinction or Newest Species?

Being A Living Fossil Evolved Multiple Times

A Strategic Arms Race Among Birds

It may be hard to swallow, but Bumpus could get bumped to the back burner

Why Birders Dig Darwin

Land Bridges are Back in Season!

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