The Most Perfect Thing: Inside (and Outside) a Bird's Egg

by Tim Birkhead

Book Overview

A bird's egg is a nearly perfect survival capsule--an external womb--and one of natural selection's most wonderful creations.
Shortlisted for the Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize 2016.One of Forbes' Best Books About Birds and Birding in 2016.

Renowned ornithologist Tim Birkhead opens this gripping story as a female guillemot chick hatches, already carrying her full quota of tiny eggs within her undeveloped ovary...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1632863693
• ISBN13: 9781632863690
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.6" x 8.3"