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020 $a9780199922642
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050 00 $aQL31.L27$bA53 2013
082 00 $a598.092$aB$223
100 1 $aAnderson, Ted R.
245 14 $aThe life of David Lack :$bfather of evolutionary ecology /$cTed R. Anderson.
264 1 $aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c[2013]
300 $ax, 246 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 233-242) and index.
505 0 $a1. The birds of Cambridgeshire -- 2. The life of the robin -- 3. Darwin's finches -- 4. Robin redbreast -- 5. The natural regulation of animal numbers -- 6. Swifts in a tower -- 7. Evolutionary theory and Christian belief -- 8. Enjoying ornithology -- 9. Population studies of birds -- 10. Ecological adaptations for breeding in birds -- 11. Ecological isolation in birds -- 12. Evolution illustrated by waterfowl -- 13. Island biology.
520 $a"Most people who have taken a biology course in the past 50 years are familiar with the work of David Lack, but few remember his name. Almost all general biology texts produced during that period have a figure showing the beak size differences among the finches of the Galapagos Islands from Lack's 1947 classic, Darwin's Finches. Lack's pioneering conclusions in Darwin's Finches mark the beginning of a new scientific discipline, evolutionary ecology. Tim Birkhead, in his acclaimed book, The Wisdom of Birds, calls Lack the 'hero of modern ornithology.' Who was this influential, yet relatively unknown man? The Life of David Lack, Father of Evolutionary Ecology provides an answer to that question based on Ted Anderson's personal interviews with colleagues, family members and former students as well as material in the extensive Lack Archive at Oxford University"--$cProvided by publisher.
600 10 $aLack, David,$d1910-1973.
650 0 $aOrnithologists$zGreat Britain$vBiography.
650 0 $aBiologists$zGreat Britain$vBiography.
650 0 $aBirds$xEvolution.
650 0 $aBirds$xEcology.
650 0 $aEvolution (Biology)
650 0 $aAdaptation (Biology)
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