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02142aam a22004454i 4500 001 C1697D9611BD11E693E905BEDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20220910012104 008 151006r20162016nyuaf b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1632863693 020 $a 9781632863690 035 $a (OCoLC)933287017 040 $a TRACS $b eng $e rda $c TRACS $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d BDX $d NLE $d OCLCO $d CGP $d CPP $d UOK $d SINLB $d ABG $d LG@ $d SILO 050 4 $a QL675 $b .B57 2016 082 04 $a 598.1468 $2 23 100 1 $a Birkhead, T. R., $e author. 245 14 $a The most perfect thing : $b inside (and outside) a bird's egg / $c Tim Birkhead. 250 $a First U.S. edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Bloomsbury, $c 2016. 300 $a xvi, 288 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations (some color) ; $c 22 cm 500 $a "First published in Great Britain in 2016"--Title-page verso. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages [221]-265) and index. 505 0 $a Climmers and collectors -- Making shells -- The shape of eggs -- Colouring eggs : how? -- Colouring eggs : why? -- Much ado about albumen : the microbe war -- Yolk, ovaries, and fertilisation -- Stupendious love : laying, incubation, and hatching -- Lupton's legacy. 520 $a Renowned ornithologist Tim Birkhead uses birds' eggs as wondrous portals into natural history, enlivened by the stories of naturalists and scientists, including Birkhead and his students, whose discoveries have advanced current scientific knowledge of reproduction. 650 0 $a Birds $x Eggs. 650 0 $a Birds $x Embryology. 650 0 $a Birds $x Reproduction. 941 $a 10 952 $l ALPE516 $d 20240417013723.0 952 $l SFPH074 $d 20240314012948.0 952 $l GEPG771 $d 20210722052755.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20200204083434.0 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20200110065337.0 952 $l AAPF906 $d 20190717031435.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006094516.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20180403015708.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20160923010825.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20160716010455.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C1697D9611BD11E693E905BEDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b LG@Initiate Another SILO Locator Search