![]() ![]() ![]() Feathers is a captivating and beautiful exploration of this most enchanting object. And they have inked documents from the Constitution to the novels of Jane Austen. They have decorated queens, jesters, and priests. They silence the flight of owls and keep penguins dry below the ice. Applying the research of paleontologists, ornithologists, biologists, engineers, and even art historians, Hanson asks: What are feathers? How did they evolve? What do they mean to us? Engineers call feathers the most efficient insulating material ever discovered, and they are at the root of biology's most enduring debate. ![]() In Feathers, biologist Thor Hanson details a sweeping natural history, as feathers have been used to fly, protect, attract, and adorn through time and place. Yet their story has never been fully told. In the book Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle, author Thor Hanson builds on these common denominators of human experience to take his readers on a broad-ranging tour of what experts know about (and how we make use of) feathers. They date back more than 100 million years. Feathers are an evolutionary marvel: aerodynamic, insulating, beguiling. ![]()
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