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Birds and People: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

We sing about them, we paint them, we use them as mythic and poetic symbols for our spiritual and emotional feelings, we wear them in myriad and often colorful ways, we adopt them as household pets. Cocker writes about the species within each family with a literary specificity softened by a tone of conversational patience.

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What happened with Archaeopteryx?

10,000 Birds

You and your colleagues are experts on the history of France, Poland, Spain, all those European countries. The trait must then be identifiable as to whether or not it exists in a certain species. Imagine you study history. In other words, it must be measurable and consistent, what we call in the trade “well behaved.&#

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