The Life of the Robin

Author:   David Lack ,  David Lindo ,  Peter Lack ,  Robert Gillmor
Publisher:   Pallas Athene Publishers
Edition:   Enlarged edition
ISBN:  

9781843681304


Pages:   304
Publication Date:   01 June 2016
Format:   Paperback
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The robin was hardly understood when David Lack – Britain's most influential ornithologist – started his scientific observations. This book is a landmark in natural history, not just for its discoveries, but because of the approachable style, sharpened with an acute wit. It reads as fascinatingly today as when it was written. AUTHOR: David Lack, FRS (1910–1973) has been called Britain's most influential ornithologist. Amongst other achievements he developed what is now known as Lack's Principle which explained the evolution of avian clutch sizes in terms of individual selection as opposed to the competing contemporary idea that they had evolved for the benefit of species (also known as group selection); this has been considered a major development in Darwinian evolution His pioneering life-history studies of the living bird helped in changing the nature of ornithology from what was then a collection-oriented field. He was a longtime director of the Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology at the University of Oxford. SELLING POINTS: . A new edition of the original biography of the robin, Britain's favourite bird, full of surprises and wit and with added postscript on recent ornithological advances

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Author:   David Lack ,  David Lindo ,  Peter Lack ,  Robert Gillmor
Publisher:   Pallas Athene Publishers
Imprint:   Pallas Athene Publishers
Edition:   Enlarged edition
Dimensions:   Width: 12.50cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 19.00cm
Weight:   0.310kg
ISBN:  

9781843681304


ISBN 10:   1843681307
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   01 June 2016
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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David Lack, FRS (1910–1973) has been called Britain's most influential ornithologist. Amongst other achievements he developed what is now known as Lack's Principle which explained the evolution of avian clutch sizes in terms of individual selection as opposed to the competing contemporary idea that they had evolved for the benefit of species (also known as group selection); this has been considered a major development in Darwinian evolution His pioneering life-history studies of the living bird helped in changing the nature of ornithology from what was then a collection-oriented field. He was a longtime director of the Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology at the University of Oxford.

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