The Evolution of Flight

• Main Authors: Glaeser, Georg (Author), Paulus, Hannes F. (Author), Nachtigall, Werner (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Animal ecology.; Evolutionary biology.; Zoology.; Nature.; Environment.; Life Sciences.; Evolutionary Biology.; Popular Life Sciences.; Popular Science in Nature and Environment.; Animal Ecology.

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 (pol...

Table of Contents:

• 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.