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The Secret Perfume of Birds: Uncovering the Science of Avian Scent
By Danielle J. Whittaker, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022, hardcover, 296 pages, $27.95.
Danielle Whittaker heads the BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action at Michigan State University. As a young evolutionary biologist, she was irked by the puzzling lack of evidence for the widespread belief that birds have no sense of smell. That myth sparked her scientific journey to show how birds
