托爾·漢森是一位獨立保護生物學傢,曾獲古根海姆奬(Guggenheim Fellow)和斯威策基金會環境奬(Switzer Environmental Fellow)。本科畢業於雷德蘭茲大學,經愛達荷大學和(哥斯達黎加)熱帶農業研究所聯閤培養獲得博士學位。目前居住於美國聖鬍安島。著有《無法理解的森林》(The Impenetrable Forest,2008)、《種子的勝利》(The Triumph of Seeds,2016)等書。
Now in paperback, this is Thor Hanson's critically-acclaimed natural and cultural history of nature's finest invention. Feathers are an evolutionary marvel: aerodynamic, insulating, and beguiling. Their story begins in the Jurassic period and leads through the development of flight to high fashion - from leaping dinosaurs to da Vinci sketches to showgirls on the Las Vegas Strip, they date back to the dawn of time. Yet their story has never been fully told. In "Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle", biologist Thor Hanson tells a sweeping natural history of feathers, as they've been used to fly, protect, attract and adorn through time and place. Applying the research of palaeontologists, ornithologists, biologists, engineers, and even art historians, Hanson asks: What are feathers? How did they evolve? What do they mean to us? Engineers call feathers the most efficient insulating material ever discovered. They've inspired legends and literature, from Icarus to Shakespeare. They've inked documents from the Constitution to the novels of Jane Austen. They've decorated queens, jesters, plague doctors, Aztec priests and the fabled birds of paradise. They silence the flight of owls, give shimmer to hummingbirds and keep penguins dry below the ice. They are at the root of biology's most enduring debate. It goes without saying, the importance and intrigue of feathers is patent. Informed by Hanson's own field experiences form Africa to Antarctica, "Feathers" deftly traces a history of evolution, fluff, flight, fancy and function. A captivating and beautifully-written exploration of the human fascination with a most enchanting object, "Feathers" transports readers from mythical associations with the divine to the height of modern-day science and technology.
發表於2024-11-23
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圖書標籤: 鰂魚湧 調景嶺 藍田 科普 屯門 大角咀 Books Basic
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評分原來防水不是因為羽毛的質地,而是羽毛構成的結構,太牛b瞭
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