Birds and us a 12,000-year history from cave art to conservation
"Since the dawn of human history, birds have stirred our imagination, inspiring and challenging our ideas about science, faith, art, and philosophy. We have worshipped birds as gods, hunted them for sustenance, adorned ourselves with their feathers, studied their wings to engineer flight, and, more...
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2022]
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Table of Contents:
- Of peculiar interest: Neolithic birds
- Inside the catacombs: the birds of ancient Egypt
- Talking birds: the beginnings of science in Greece and Rome
- Manly pursuits: hunting and conspicuous consumption
- Renaissance thinking: the parts of the birds
- The new world of science: Francis Willughby and John Ray discover birds
- Depending on birds: inconspicuous consumption
- The end of God in birds: Darwin and ornithology
- A dangerous type of bigamy: killing time
- Watching birds: and seeing the light
- A boom in bird studies: behaviour, evolution and ecology
- Ghost of the great auk: third mass extinction.
