Ted R. Anderson

The Life of David Lack

Father of Evolutionary Ecology

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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… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-19-992265-9
EAN: 9780199922659
Produktnummer: 14822720
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 352 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 3'459 KB
Abbildungen: 19 black-and-white

Über den Autor

Ted R. Anderson is Emeritus Professor of Biology at McKendree University. Professor Anderson is the author of Biology of the Ubiquitous House Sparrow: From Genes to Populations (OUP 2006). He is retired and lives with his wife, Carol, in Kingston, Washington.