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Ten Birds That Changed the World — a review

10,000 Birds

The book is a grab-bag of facts about the ten birds, mostly culled from other works. They were barely mentioned in The Voyage of the Beagle and not at all in On the Origin of Species. Later it was thought that the widely varying beak sizes and types of those phenotypes inspired Darwin’s insights, a la Newton and his apple.