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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Birkhead, Tim, author.     Subjects     Birds -- Eggs.     Birds -- Embryology.     Birds -- Reproduction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Birkhead, Tim, author.       by title:      The most perfect thi...         MARC Display

The most perfect thing : inside (and outside) a bird's egg / Tim Birkhead. by Birkhead, Tim, author. New York : Bloomsbury, 2016. Subjects Birds -- Eggs.   Birds -- Embryology.   Birds -- Reproduction. ISBN:  9781632863690 (hardcover) : 1632863693 (hardcover) Description:  xvi, 288 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm Edition:  First U.S. edition. Contents:  Climmers and collectors -- Making shells -- The shape of eggs -- Colouring eggs : how? -- Colouring eggs : why? -- Much ado about albumen : the microbe war -- Yolk, ovaries, and fertilisation -- Stupendious love : laying, incubation, and hatching -- Lupton's legacy. Requests:  0 Summary:  Renowned ornithologist Tim Birkhead uses birds' eggs as wondrous portals into natural history, enlivened by the stories of naturalists and scientists, including Birkhead and his students, whose discoveries have advanced current scientific knowledge of reproduction.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Business, Science & Technology 598.1468 Bi Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kailua-Kona Public Library Adult Nonfiction 598.1468 Bi Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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