The most perfect thing
Subtitle: inside (and outside) a bird's egg
By: Tim Birkhead
Edition: First U.S. edition.
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781632863690
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Eggs; Embryology; Birds; Reproduction
Description: Renowned ornithologist Tim Birkhead uses birds' eggs as wondrous portals into natural history, enlivened by the stories of naturalists and scientists, including Birkhead and his students, whose discoveries have advanced current scientific knowledge of reproduction.
Notes: "First published in Great Britain in 2016"--Title-page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-265) and index.
Table of contents: title: Climmers and collectors; title: Making shells; title: The shape of eggs; title: Colouring eggs : how?; title: Colouring eggs : why?; title: Much ado about albumen : the microbe war; title: Yolk, ovaries, and fertilisation; title: Stupendious love : laying, incubation, and hatching; title: Lupton's legacy.