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Ten Birds That Changed the World — a review

10,000 Birds

You might think that birds don’t change the world, birds are the world – but by his odd title, Ten Birds That Changed the World, author Stephen Moss means, he says, that birds have, in various ways, led to “paradigm shifts” in human history. The book is a grab-bag of facts about the ten birds, mostly culled from other works.

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It may be hard to swallow, but Bumpus could get bumped to the back burner

10,000 Birds

In 1898, Hermon Bumpus published a paper about change in the morphology in a population of House Sparrows that he proposed was an example of Darwinian Natural Selection in action. House Sparrows ( Passer domesticus ) are introduced birds over most of their very large range. Where has all the road kill gone? 2013.02.023.

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