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The Feathery Tribe: Robert Ridgway and the Modern Study of Birds

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 | #1449645 in Books |  Yale University Press |  2012-03-12 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.25 x1.00 x6.12l,1.50 | File type: PDF | 368 pages

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||7 of 8 people found the following review helpful.| A Soaring Tribute|By Julianne Lutz Warren|This book gives long due tribute to the shy, impassioned man, the Smithsonian's first curator of birds, who was so instrumental to the emergence of professional ornithology. It does so as it masterfully explores the history of that science. It also helps us better understand how science is practiced today, including tensions between ind

Amateurs and professionals studying birds at the end of the nineteenth century were a contentious, passionate group with goals that intersected, collided and occasionally merged in their writings and organizations. Driven by a desire to advance science, as well as by ego, pride, honor, insecurity, religion and other clashing sensibilities, they struggled to absorb the implications of evolution after Darwin. In the process, they dramatically reshaped the study of birds...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.The Feathery Tribe: Robert Ridgway and the Modern Study of Birds   |  Daniel Lewis. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.

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