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The Nesting Season: Cuckoos, Cuckolds, and the Invention of Monogamy
The Nesting Season Cuckoos Cuckolds and the Invention of Monogamy
Author: Bernd Heinrich
Why are the eggs of the marsh wren deep brown, the winter wren's nearly white, and the gray catbird's a brilliant blue? And what in the DNA of a penduline tit makes the male weave a domed nest of fibers and the female line it with feathers, while the bird-of-paradise male builds no nest at all, and his bower-bird counterpart constructs an elabor...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780674061934
ISBN-10: 0674061934
Publication Date: 10/15/2011
Pages: 352
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Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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