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title: "Taking Wing: Archaeopteryx and the Evolution of Bird Flight"
brand: "pat shipman"
price: "322 kr"
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# Taking Wing: Archaeopteryx and the Evolution of Bird Flight

**Brand:** pat shipman
**Price:** 322 kr
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- **What is this?** Taking Wing: Archaeopteryx and the Evolution of Bird Flight by pat shipman
- **How much does it cost?** 322 kr with free shipping
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Taking Wing: Archaeopteryx and the Evolution of Bird Flight

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## Customer Reviews

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    A Triumph of Science Writing
  

*by E***S on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 3, 2001*

The other reviews accurately describe the contents of this book.  What I want to emphasize is Shipman's writing.  This is probably the best written science book I have ever read.  The author breaks down the book into smaller stories, such as the discovery of the fossils themselves, the structure of the skeletal joints of dinosaurs and modern birds, and the evolution and aerodynamics  of feathers to name a few.  Also recounted are the some of the more interesting human characters interpreting the fossil record of these little birds for the past 150 years.  All of this is told in a lively, informal fashion.  Yet Shipman does not shy away from some of the more technical details, and that is part of the joy of this book.  Instead, she takes us by the hand and leads us through the details, never trying to oversimplify things, but never boring us, either.  It reads like a novel.My only complaint is that the illustrations, in the paperback edition I read, are reduced to such a tiny size that they are often very hard or impossible to read.  This is a shame, because the illustrations are really necessary to understand some of the concepts presented here.  But don't let that stop you--get a magnifying glass and let your mind soar back tens of thousands of millenia to the time when little Archaeopteryx lived and died.This is a great book.

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    Thorough review, nicely told, but some of the questions have been recently answered by new fossils.
  

*by T***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 6, 2019*

Just got back from seeing the only specimen of Archaeopteryx in the Americas, in Thermopolis,Wyoming.  Information is slightly dated, but an excellent and thorough review of the controversies around Archaeopteryx, especially in the era before the recent spate of Chinese feathered dinosaurs from Liaoning.  After this and Alan Feduccia’s Origin and Evolution of Birds, and Gregory Paul’s Dinosaurs of the Air,  I feel a bit more prepared to tackle Peter Wellnhofer.  But Pat Shipman is a good place to start for anyone interested in where birds came from and how flight arose in birds.

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    Interesting Read
  

*by T***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 22, 2017*

Probably more of a read than casual readers would care for, but very interesting subject for me. You will learn about birds and is a good complimentary book for those studying bird morphology and pre-history.

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*Last updated: 2026-03-14*