Biology of Bryozoans by Robert M. Woollacott,Russel L. Zimmer

Mammal Teeth

During this distinctive ebook, Peter S. Ungar tells the tale of mammalian the teeth from their starting place via their evolution to their present range. Mammal enamel strains the evolutionary background of enamel, starting with the first actual mineralized vertebrate constructions part one thousand million years in the past. Ungar describes how the straightforward conical the teeth of early vertebrates turned the molars, incisors, and different kinds we see in mammals this day.

The House of Owls

For 1 / 4 of a century, Tony Angell and his kin shared the impressive event of heavily watching pairs of western screech owls that occupied a nesting field outdoor 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 an excellent horned owl.

Social Behavior of Female Vertebrates

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