Noise-Induced Hearing Loss: Scientific Advances: 40 by Colleen G. Le Prell,Donald Henderson,Richard R. Fay,Arthur

Mammal Teeth

During this designated ebook, Peter S. Ungar tells the tale of mammalian enamel from their beginning via their evolution to their present variety. Mammal tooth lines the evolutionary historical past of tooth, starting with the first actual mineralized vertebrate buildings part 1000000000 years in the past. Ungar describes how the straightforward conical enamel of early vertebrates turned the molars, incisors, and different kinds we see in mammals this present day.

The House of Owls

For 1 / 4 of a century, Tony Angell and his kin shared the striking event of heavily gazing 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 desirable 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 very 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 elements 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 ladies improve the funding bought by way of their offspring from others.