Sentinel Chickens by Peter Doherty - ISBN: 9780522861105
Paperback
Birds provide humans not only with enormous aesthetic pleasure, they also inform us of our ever-changing situation in this complex and unpredictable world. Free flying birds sample the atmosphere, the oceans, the plants, the forests and insect populations, signalling toxic and environmental dangers …

Sentinel Chickens

What Birds Tell Us About Our Health And Our World

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  • Paperback

    240 pages

  • Release Date

    1 August 2012

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Summary

Sentinel Chickens shows us how birds provide insights at the cutting edge of science and merit our sustained attention.‘The idea of ‘sentinel chickens’ seemed pretty incongruous when I first heard the phrase as a young undergraduate … The notion of the humble chicken waiting like a trained soldier, alert and focused, for some unseen and approaching enemy just didn’t seem likely. Hens en garde!‘And yet guard they do. Not only chickens, but puffins, eagles, canaries and toucans- birds of all ki…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780522861105
ISBN-10:0522861105
Author:Peter Doherty
Publisher:Melbourne University Press
Imprint:Melbourne University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:240
Release Date:1 August 2012
Weight:260g
Dimensions:208mm x 140mm x 22mm
About The Author

Peter Doherty

Peter Doherty’s pioneering research into human immune systems earned him the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine in 1996. He was Australian of the Year and awarded a Companion of the Order of Australia in 1997 and currently divides his professional time between the University of Melbourne and St Jude Children’s Hospital in Memphis, where he is helping unravel the mystery of childhood cancer.

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