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Taking Flight
How Animals Learned to Fly and Transformed Life on Earth
Lev Parikian
(2025)
Sprog: Engelsk
Elliott & Thompson, Limited
139,00 kr.
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- Paperback: 304 sider
- Udgiver: Elliott & Thompson, Limited (April 2025)
- ISBN: 9781783967827
'This book soars . . . Parikian is a nature writer at the top of his game.' --Steve Brusatte, author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2023*
This is the miracle of flight as you've never seen it before: the evolutionary story of life on the wing.
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 mesmerising encounter with fourteen flying species: from the first fluttering insect of 300 million years ago to the crested pterosaurs of the Mesozoic Era, from hummingbirds that co-evolved with rainforest flowers to the wonders of dragonfly, albatross, pipistrelle and monarch butterfly 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.
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2023*
This is the miracle of flight as you've never seen it before: the evolutionary story of life on the wing.
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 mesmerising encounter with fourteen flying species: from the first fluttering insect of 300 million years ago to the crested pterosaurs of the Mesozoic Era, from hummingbirds that co-evolved with rainforest flowers to the wonders of dragonfly, albatross, pipistrelle and monarch butterfly 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.
CONTENTSAuthor' s Note................................ xiIntroduction
............................... xiii?1 The Mayfly
................................. 1?2 The Dragonfly
............................. 19?3 The Beetle
................................. 37?4 The Fly
.................................... 53?5 The Bee
.................................... 69?6 The Butterfly............................... 85?7 The Pterosaur............................ 103?8 The Archaeopteryx
...................... 127?9 The Penguin
............................. 14710 The Goose
............................... 16511 The Hummingbird
...................... 18912 The Albatross............................ 20513 The Pigeon
.............................. 22314 The Bat
.................................. 241Afterword
................................ 259Acknowledgements
....................... 263Notes..................................... 265Selected Bibliography..................... 273Index..................................... 275
............................... xiii?1 The Mayfly
................................. 1?2 The Dragonfly
............................. 19?3 The Beetle
................................. 37?4 The Fly
.................................... 53?5 The Bee
.................................... 69?6 The Butterfly............................... 85?7 The Pterosaur............................ 103?8 The Archaeopteryx
...................... 127?9 The Penguin
............................. 14710 The Goose
............................... 16511 The Hummingbird
...................... 18912 The Albatross............................ 20513 The Pigeon
.............................. 22314 The Bat
.................................. 241Afterword
................................ 259Acknowledgements
....................... 263Notes..................................... 265Selected Bibliography..................... 273Index..................................... 275
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