Doug Futuyma believes in science and in the scientific basis of evolution. This shouldn’t have to be stated, especially in a book on bird...
Tradeoffs in behavior, and plasticity We assume natural selection has shaped birds to avoid predators. Noticing predators, reacting to them perhaps with an alarm...
Birds are a subset of dinosaurs (See: Honey, I Shrunk the Dinosaurs. Prior to the extinction of all of the other dinosaurs, resulting from...
There is a fantastic paper just out in Science: “Sustained miniaturization and anatomoical innovation in the dinosaurian anceestors of birds” by Michael Lee, Andrea...
Yesterday i introduced you, gentle reader, to the lovely work done by the acclimatisation societies of New Zealand in making the already interesting biogeography...
It has been discovered that largosity and flightlessness, which perhaps fortunately tend to go together in birds, evolved more than once. The original story...
The vast majority of the 10,000+ living species of birds are passerines, and the vast majority of those have a similar system of breeding:...
In 1898, Hermon Bumpus published a paper about change in the morphology in a population of House Sparrows that he proposed was an example...
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