David Lack

The Life of the Robin

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A new edition of the original biography of the robin, Britainà â â s favourite bird, full of surprises and wit and with added postscript on recent ornithological advances.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pallas Athene Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 188mm x 123mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 308g
• ISBN-13: 9781843681304
• ISBN-10: 1843681307
• Artikelnr.: 45020464

Autorenporträt

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.