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David Lack

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The Life of David Lack: Father of Evolutionary Ecology

Ted Anderson

2013

"Most people who have taken a biology course in the past 50 years are familiar with the work of David Lack, but few remember his name. Almost all general biology texts produced during that period have a figure showing the beak size differences among the finches of the Galapagos Islands from Lack's 1947 classic, Darwin's Finches. Lack's pioneering conclusions in Darwin's Finches mark the beginning of a new scientific discipline, evolutionary ecology. Tim Birkhead, in his acclaimed book, The Wisdom of Birds, calls Lack the 'hero of modern ornithology.' Who was this influential, yet relatively unknown man? The Life of David Lack, Father of Evolutionary Ecology provides an answer to that question based on Ted Anderson's personal interviews with colleagues, family members and former students as well as material in the extensive Lack Archive at Oxford University."

Island Biology: Illustrated by the Land Birds of Jamaica

David Lack

University of California Press

1976

Life Of The Robin

David Lack

Reprint of revised 4th edition

1976

Reprint of study originally published in 1943.

Evolution Illustrated By Waterfowl

David Lack

Blackwell Scientific Publications

1974

Ecological Isolation in Birds

David Lack

Blackwell Scientific Publications

1971

Life Of The Robin

David Lack

Fontana

1970

Reprint of study originally published in 1943.

Ecological Adaptations For Breeding In Birds

David Lack

Methuen

1968

Population Studies Of Birds

David Lack

Oxford University Press

1966

Enjoying Ornithology

David Lack

Methuen

1965

Evolutionary Theory And Christian Belief: The Unresolved Conflict

David Lack

1957

Swifts In A Tower

David Lack

1956

Early study of Swifts based on a colony nesting in the tower of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.

First edition

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1976 reprint

The Natural Regulation Of Animal Numbers

David Lack

1954

Life Of The Robin

David Lack

1953

An paperback edition of study originally published in 1943.

Robin Redbreast

David Lack

1950

Darwin's Finches

David Lack

1947 (Reissued 1961 & 1983)

Classic study of the Darwin's Finches of the Galapagos.

Life Of The Robin

David Lack

1943

A detailed study of the Robin. There have been a number of editions and reprints of this book. A small selection of these are listed above.

The Birds of Cambridgeshire

David Lack

Introduction: Brian Roberts

Cambridge Bird Club

Includes the essay "An Account of the Birds of the Undrained Fen" by H.C. Darby.