Riedls Kulturgeschichte der Evolutionstheorie: Die Helden, by Rupert Riedl

Mammal Teeth

During this particular publication, Peter S. Ungar tells the tale of mammalian the teeth from their starting place via their evolution to their present variety. Mammal tooth lines the evolutionary heritage of tooth, starting with the first actual mineralized vertebrate constructions part a thousand million years in the past. Ungar describes how the straightforward conical enamel of early vertebrates turned the molars, incisors, and other kinds we see in mammals this day.

The House of Owls

For 1 / 4 of a century, Tony Angell and his kinfolk shared the striking event of heavily watching pairs of western screech owls that occupied a nesting field outdoor the window in their wooded area domestic. The journals within which the writer recorded his observations, and the attractive drawings he created, shape the guts 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 glossy classics One Man’s Owl and brain of the Raven, Bernd Heinrich has written memorably approximately his relationships with wild ravens and a superb horned owl.

Social Behavior of Female Vertebrates

Social habit of lady 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 lady attitudes towards men. It additionally appears to be like on the evolution of mating structures; the co-evolution of the sexes; sex-role reversal; reproductive festival among women; maternal habit; and the way adult females improve the funding got via their offspring from others.