Strategies of Sex and Survival in Female Hamadryas Baboons: by Larissa Swedell

Mammal Teeth

During this detailed booklet, Peter S. Ungar tells the tale of mammalian the teeth from their foundation via their evolution to their present variety. Mammal tooth lines the evolutionary heritage of enamel, starting with the first actual mineralized vertebrate constructions part 1000000000 years in the past. Ungar describes how the straightforward conical teeth of early vertebrates grew to become the molars, incisors, and other 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 outstanding event of heavily watching 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 desirable 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 very 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 girl attitudes towards men. It additionally appears to be like on the evolution of mating platforms; the co-evolution of the sexes; sex-role reversal; reproductive pageant among ladies; maternal habit; and the way ladies increase the funding bought by way of their offspring from others.