![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And they have inked documents from the Constitution to the novels of Jane Austen.įeathers is a captivating and beautiful exploration of this most enchanting object. They have decorated queens, jesters, and priests. They silence the flight of owls and keep penguins dry below the ice. Thor Hanson is a conservation biologist, Guggenheim Fellow, and author of award-winning books including Buzz, Feathers, The Impenetrable. 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. They date back more than 100 million years. 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?Įngineers call feathers the most efficient insulating material ever discovered, and they are at the root of biology’s most enduring debate. Feathers are an evolutionary marvel: aerodynamic, insulating, beguiling. ![]() As seen on PBS’s American Spring Live, one of America’s great nature-writers explores the magic and science of feathersįeathers are an evolutionary marvel: aerodynamic, insulating, beguiling. ![]()
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