The Parrot in the Mirror: How evolving to be like birds made us human

ISBN-13: 9780198846109 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 224 str.

Antone Martinho-Truswell

Recenzje

I was happy to be learning about birds as birds and not as models for my own species... the basic premise of The Parrot in the Mirror was persuasive.

O autorze

Antone Martinho-Truswell is a behavioural ecologist whose work focuses on animal minds and learning, especially in birds and cephalopods, intelligent species whose evolutionary history differs dramatically from that of mammals. He has been published in Science, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Current Biology, and elsewhere, and has been covered in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Times, and The New Scientist, as well as on BBC Radio and TalkRadio. He has also written on longstanding questions in biology, animal behaviour, and human society for Aeon and the BBC. Martinho-Truswell is currently Dean of Graduate House at St Paul's College, Sydney, and was previously Fellow in Biology at Magdalen College, Oxford.