Aesop’s Animals: The Science Behind the Fables (Bloomsbury Sigma) - Softcover

Wimpenny, Jo

 
9781472966926: Aesop’s Animals: The Science Behind the Fables (Bloomsbury Sigma)

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Turns a critical eye to Aesop's fables to ask whether there is any scientific truth behind these animal portrayals.

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Jo Wimpenny is a zoologist and writer with a research background in animal behaviour and the history of science. She studied Zoology at the University of Bristol, and went on to research problem-solving in crows and tool use for her DPhil at Oxford University. After postdoctoral research on the history of ornithology at Sheffield, she authored Aesop's Animals: The Science Behind the Fables and co-authored Ten Thousand Birds: Ornithology Since Darwin, which won the 2015 PROSE award for History of Science, Medicine and Technology.

Jo writes for BBC Wildlife and has previously presented at the BA Festival of Science, Science Oxford, the Royal Society Summer Science Fair and Glasgow Science Fair.

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ISBN 10:  1472966910 ISBN 13:  9781472966919
Verlag: Bloomsbury Sigma, 2021
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