In 1861, just a few years after the publication of Charles Darwin\'s On the Origin of Species, a scientist named Hermann von Meyer made an amazing discovery.
She lives in State College, Pennsylvani.
She has written extensively on Evolution and anthropology for such magazines as Discover, Natural History, New Scientist, and Focus.
Taking Wing is science as adventure story, told with all the drama by which scientific understanding unfolds About author(s): Pat Shipman , an anthropologist at Pennsylvania State University, is the author of The Evolution of Racism and, with Alan Walker, The Wisdom of the Bones.
Are birds actually living dinosaurs? Where does the fossil record really lead? Did Flight originate from the ground up or trees down? Pat Shipman traces the age-old human desire to soar above the earth and to understand what has come before us.
Hailed as the First Bird, Archaeopteryx has remained the subject of heated debates for the last 140 years.
This transitional creature offered tangible proof of Darwin\'s theory of evolution.
Hidden in the Bavarian region of Germany was a fossil skeleton so exquisitely preserved that its wings and feathers were as obvious as its reptilian jaws and tail.
In 1861, just a few years after the publication of Charles Darwin\'s On the Origin of Species, a scientist named Hermann von Meyer made an amazing discovery
