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Jennifer Ackerman has been writing about science, nature, and human…
DiscoverJennifer Ackerman wins 2021 Behavioural Zoology Whitley Award
We’re thrilled to announce that Jennifer Ackerman has won the 2021 Whitley Award for Behavioural Zoology for her book The Bird Way — a radical examination of the bird way of being and of recent scientific research that is dramatically shifting our understanding of birds.
Awarded annually, the Whitley Awards recognise the best publications that profile the unique wildlife of the Australasian region and this year is a very significant one given it is the 50th Anniversary of the Whitleys.
Jennifer Ackerman has been writing about science, nature, and human biology for almost three decades. Her most recent books include Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream: a day in the life of your body; Ah-Choo: the uncommon life of the common cold; Chance in the House of Fate: a natural history of heredity; The Genius of Birds; and Birds by the Shore. A contributor to Scientific American, National Geographic, The New York Times, and many other publications, Ackerman is the recipient of an National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Nonfiction, a Bunting Fellowship, and a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
The Bird Way
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds, here is a radical examination of the bird way of being and of recent scientific research that is dramatically shifting our understanding of birds — how they live and how they think.
‘There is the mammal way and there is the bird way.’ This is one scientist’s pithy distinction between mammal brains and bird brains: two ways to make a highly intelligent mind. But the bird way is much more than a unique pattern of brain wiring, and, lately, scientists have taken a new look at bird behaviours. What they are finding is upending the…
