A bird's egg is a nearly perfect survival capsule--an external womb--and one of natural selection's most wonderful creations. Shortlisted for the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize 2016.One of Forbes' Best Books About...

"Promiscuity: An Evolutionary History of Sperm Competition" von Tim Birkhead ist ein faszinierendes Buch, das die komplexen und oft überraschenden Mechanismen der Fortpflanzung im Tierreich untersucht. Birkhead beleuchtet das Phänomen...

'I think that, if required on pain of death to name instantly the most perfect thing in the universe, I should risk my fate on a bird's egg' Thomas Wentworth Higginson, 1862 How are eggs of different shapes made, and why are they the...