On the Wing

July 14, 2015 By John E. Riutta in Newly Noted Books Tags: alexander, book, Evolution, flight, forthcoming, News, oxford, press, university, wing

Birds do it. Bees do it. As for educated fleas… well, I’m not so sure. But I do know that bats do it and that Pterodactyls did.

Fly, of course.

An advance reading copy of David E. Alexander’s forthcoming book On the Wing: Insects, Pterosaurus, Birds, Bats and the Evolution of Animal Flight arrived from Oxford University Press recently, and I have to say – it looks very interesting indeed.

Publication is indicated as being scheduled for October 2015. My reading of it will likely take place in early August.

John E. Riutta

Founder and publisher of The Well-read Naturalist. Inveterate autodidact. Has repeatedly been found out standing in many fields. Plays well with otters.

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