A New World of Animals: Early Modern Europeans on the by Miguel de Asúa,Roger French

Mammal Teeth

During this distinctive booklet, Peter S. Ungar tells the tale of mammalian enamel from their foundation via their evolution to their present variety. Mammal tooth strains the evolutionary heritage of tooth, starting with the first actual mineralized vertebrate buildings part a thousand million years in the past. Ungar describes how the easy conical teeth of early vertebrates turned the molars, incisors, and other kinds we see in mammals at the present time.

The House of Owls

For 1 / 4 of a century, Tony Angell and his relatives shared the amazing adventure of heavily looking at pairs of western screech owls that occupied a nesting field outdoors the window in their wooded area domestic. The journals during which the writer recorded his observations, and the appealing drawings he created, shape the center of this compelling book—a own account of an artist-naturalist’s lifestyles 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 superb horned owl.

Social Behavior of Female Vertebrates

Social habit of lady Vertebrates specializes in the evolution of reproductive habit in lady vertebrates starting from fish to birds and people, together with problems with mate selection and different elements underlying girl attitudes towards men. It additionally seems to be on the evolution of mating structures; the co-evolution of the sexes; sex-role reversal; reproductive festival among ladies; maternal habit; and the way ladies improve the funding obtained by way of their offspring from others.