Flights of fancy defying gravity by design & evolution
Have you ever dreamt you could fly? Or imagined what it would be like to glide and swoop through the sky like a bird? Do you let your mind soar to unknown, magical spaces? In Flights of Fancy, Richard Dawkins explains how nature and humans have learned to overcome the pull of gravity and take to the...
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London :
Head of Zeus,
2021.
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Table of Contents:
- Dreams of flying
- What is flight good for?
- If flying is so great, why do some animals lose their wings?
- Flying is easy if you are small
- If you must be large and fly, increase your surface area out of proportion
- Unpowered flight : parachuting and gliding
- Powered flight in animals
- Be lighter than air
- Weightlessness
- Aerial plankton
- "Wings" for plants
- Differences between evolved and designed flying machines
- What is the use of half a wing?
- The outward urge : beyond flying.
