A Century of Parasitology: Discoveries, ideas and lessons by John Janovy,Gerald W. Esch

Mammal Teeth

During this targeted ebook, Peter S. Ungar tells the tale of mammalian tooth from their beginning via their evolution to their present range. Mammal enamel strains the evolutionary historical past of tooth, starting with the first actual mineralized vertebrate constructions part a thousand million years in the past. Ungar describes how the easy conical enamel of early vertebrates grew to become the molars, incisors, and different kinds we see in mammals at the present time.

The House of Owls

For 1 / 4 of a century, Tony Angell and his family members shared the notable adventure of heavily staring at pairs of western screech owls that occupied a nesting field open air the window in their woodland domestic. The journals within which the writer recorded his observations, and the attractive drawings he created, shape the center of this compelling book—a own account of an artist-naturalist’s existence with owls.

One Wild Bird at a Time: Portraits of Individual Lives

The acclaimed scientist's encounters with individual wild birds, yielding “marvelous, mind-altering” (Los Angeles Times) insights and discoveries In his smooth classics One Man’s Owl and brain of the Raven, Bernd Heinrich has written memorably approximately his relationships with wild ravens and a good horned owl.

Social Behavior of Female Vertebrates

Social habit of girl Vertebrates makes a speciality of the evolution of reproductive habit in woman vertebrates starting from fish to birds and people, together with problems with mate selection and different components underlying woman attitudes towards men. It additionally appears on the evolution of mating structures; the co-evolution of the sexes; sex-role reversal; reproductive festival among adult females; maternal habit; and the way adult females improve the funding obtained via their offspring from others.