商品簡介
Behavioral ecologist Tim Birkhead describes how the rather plain but sweet-voiced green bird that was discovered by Spanish explorers in the 1300s became a craze in Renaissance Europe, how breeders gradually turned its green plumage to yellow, how Duncker and Reich combined genetic science with bird-breeding lore to produce an almost-red canary, and how British breeders were finally able to successfully produce a red canary in the 1960s. But more than just a fascinating account, this story marks a scientific turning point: this was the first instance of plucking specific genes from one creature and incorporating them into another.
作者簡介
Tim Birkhead is now professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Sheffield.
