Parasitic and Related Diseases: Basic Mechanisms, by Thomas C. Cheng

Mammal Teeth

During this precise booklet, Peter S. Ungar tells the tale of mammalian enamel from their beginning via their evolution to their present variety. Mammal the teeth lines the evolutionary heritage of the teeth, 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 family members shared the notable adventure of heavily watching 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 beautiful 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 glossy 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 girl Vertebrates makes a speciality of the evolution of reproductive habit in girl 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 to be on the evolution of mating structures; the co-evolution of the sexes; sex-role reversal; reproductive festival among adult females; maternal habit; and the way women improve the funding obtained by means of their offspring from others.