03531nam 22006495 450 991025393010332120250718152059.03-319-57024-210.1007/978-3-319-57024-2(CKB)3710000001364371(DE-He213)978-3-319-57024-2(MiAaPQ)EBC4857613(PPN)201471035(MiAaPQ)EBC29090524(EXLCZ)99371000000136437120170511d2017 u| 0engurnn|008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Evolution of Flight /by Georg Glaeser, Hannes F. Paulus, Werner Nachtigall1st ed. 2017.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Springer,2017.1 online resource (XII, 248 p. 320 illus.) Includes index.3-319-57023-4 Chapter 1: 400 Million Years of Flight Evolution -- Chapter 2: Photographs of animals in flight -- Chapter 3: From the perspective of the biophysicist -- Chapter 4: Criteria of evolution -- Chapter 5: Insects: The first flying animals -- Chapter 6: Birds: The “classics” among flying animals -- Chapter 7: Bats: Flying mammals -- Chapter 8: The fascination remains.This book will take you on an exciting journey made up of texts and images. Spectacular, large-scale photographs printed on double pages and accompanied by explanatory texts will arouse the reader’s curiosity about evolution’s accomplishments in the world of flying: from the botanical air fleet (pollen grains, flying seeds…), over flying snakes and fish, to penguins flying underwater and humans rising into the air. Mathematician and passionate animal photographer Georg Glaser has joined forces with the experienced evolutionary biologist Hannes Paulus and the exercise physiologist and flight biophysicist Werner Nachtigall in order to approach this topic with words and pictures in a way that is both generally comprehensible and scientifically sound. Double-page by double-page, the book can be read in any order. Cross-references allow to jump easily from one double-page to another. Aside from the detailed introduction to each chapter, the text passages are usually independent from one another, and they discuss crucial moments in the evolutionary process. The double-pages provide additional information on bibliographical references and references to informative websites.Evolution (Biology)Life sciencesEcologyZoologyAnimal migrationEvolutionary BiologyLife SciencesEnvironmental SciencesZoologyAnimal MigrationEvolution (Biology)Life sciences.Ecology.Zoology.Animal migration.Evolutionary Biology.Life Sciences.Environmental Sciences.Zoology.Animal Migration.576.8Glaeser Georgauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut31804Paulus Hannes Fauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/autNachtigall Wernerauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/autBOOK9910253930103321The Evolution of Flight2263862UNINA