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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgements
Illustrations
Timeline
Geological Ages
Prologue: Evolution of an Idea
Part One: The Non-Passerines
1 The Tinamou’s Story: Death of a Paradigm
2 The Vegavis’s Story: The Cradle of Modern Birds
3 The Waterfowl’s Story: Refugia, High Living and Sex
4 The Hoatzin’s Story: An Improbable Voyage
5 The Penguin’s Story: Phenotype and Environment
6 The Storm Petrel’s Story: Sympatry Versus Allopatry
7 The Albatross’s Story: The Species Problem
8 The Godwit’s Story: Quantum Compasses
9 The Buzzard’s Story: Accidental Speciation
10 The Owl’s Story: Nightlife
11 The Oilbird’s Story: Evolutionary Distinctiveness
12 The Hummingbird’s Story: A Route of Evanescence
13 The Parrot’s Story: Vicariance and Dispersal
Colour Plates
Part Two: The Passerines
14 The New Zealand Wren’s Story: A Novel Foot
15 The Manakin’s Story: Why So Many Suboscines?
16 The Sapayoa’s Story: Odd One Out
17 The Scrubbird’s Story: Where Song Began
18 The Bowerbird’s Story: Extended Phenotypes
19 The Crow’s Story: Cognitive Skills
20 The Bird-of-Paradise’s Story: Sexual Selection
21 The Starling’s Story: Structural Colours
22 The Thrush’s Story: Sweepstake Dispersals
23 The Sparrow’s Story: Hybridisation and Speciation
24 The Zebra Finch’s Story: Evolution of Birdsong
25 The White-eye’s Story: Supertramps and Great Speciators
26 The Crossbill’s Story: Adaptive Radiation and Coevolution
27 The Tanager’s Story: A Final Flourish
Postscript: The Sixth Extinction
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Dramatis Personae
Index
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