Humans and Other Animals: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on by Samantha Hurn

Mammal Teeth

During this certain booklet, Peter S. Ungar tells the tale of mammalian tooth from their beginning via their evolution to their present range. Mammal tooth strains the evolutionary heritage of enamel, starting with the first actual mineralized vertebrate buildings part one billion years in the past. Ungar describes how the straightforward conical teeth of early vertebrates turned 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 kinfolk shared the amazing event of heavily staring at pairs of western screech owls that occupied a nesting field outdoors the window in their woodland domestic. The journals within which the writer recorded his observations, and the beautiful drawings he created, shape the guts 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 sleek 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 woman 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 components underlying woman attitudes towards men. It additionally seems on the evolution of mating platforms; the co-evolution of the sexes; sex-role reversal; reproductive pageant among adult females; maternal habit; and the way women increase the funding acquired through their offspring from others.