The Feathery Tribe

The Feathery Tribe
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 520
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ISBN-10 : 9780300183450
ISBN-13 : 0300183453
Rating : 4/5 (453 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Feathery Tribe by : Daniel Lewis

Download or read book The Feathery Tribe written by Daniel Lewis and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Long forgotten, the Smithsonian Institution's first curator of birds, Robert Ridgway, is one of America's most important scientists. This book centers itself around a biographical treatment of Ridgway, but even more important considers what it meant to be a professional and an amateur in biology in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, and shows how the field of ornithology was professionalized as evolutionary theory made its mark on the study of birds"--Provided by publisher.


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