The evolution of flight

Discusses 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 force...

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Main Authors: Glaeser, Georg, (Author), Paulus, Hannes F., 1943- (Author), Nachtigall, Werner, (Author)
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2017]
Subjects:
Animal flight.
Wings (Anatomy)
Seeds > Dispersal.
Pollination.
Evolution (Biology)
elektronické knihy
electronic books
ISBN: 9783319570242
9783319570235
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 248 pages) : illustrations

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240 1 0 |a Evolution des Fliegens.  |l English 
245 1 4 |a The evolution of flight /  |c Georg Glaeser, Hannes F. Paulus, Werner Nachtigall. 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a 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. 
506 |a Plný text je dostupný pouze z IP adres počítačů Univerzity Tomáše Bati ve Zlíně nebo vzdáleným přístupem pro zaměstnance a studenty 
520 |a Discusses 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. 
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