Der Mensch in Zahlen: Eine Datensammlung in Tabellen mit by Steffen Schaal,Konrad Kunsch,Steffen Kunsch

Mammal Teeth

During this targeted booklet, Peter S. Ungar tells the tale of mammalian tooth from their starting place via their evolution to their present variety. Mammal enamel lines the evolutionary historical past of tooth, starting with the first actual mineralized vertebrate buildings part a thousand million years in the past. Ungar describes how the easy conical the 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 kinfolk shared the amazing adventure of heavily staring at pairs of western screech owls that occupied a nesting field outdoors the window in their wooded area domestic. The journals within which the writer recorded his observations, and the alluring 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 sleek 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 girl 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 lady attitudes towards men. It additionally seems to be on the evolution of mating platforms; the co-evolution of the sexes; sex-role reversal; reproductive festival among women; maternal habit; and the way women increase the funding bought by means of their offspring from others.