How Birds Evolve evaluation: In-depth and passionate

Douglas Futuyma’s new e book on the rise of birds is not straightforward going, but it surely reveals why they have been very important to evolutionary concept – and birders will like it

By Simon Ings

How Birds Evolve

Douglas Futuyma (Princeton College Press)

THE delight is within the element of a brand new evolutionary historical past of birds, as is a number of the devilry – for this isn’t a lightweight learn. Douglas Futuyma is out to inform a double story: he explains how the examine of those animals superior our understanding of evolution and he reveals how advances in evolutionary science remedy some long-standing ornithological mysteries, at the same time as they expose others.

Futuyma has written How Birds Evolve: What science reveals about their origin, lives, …