The Retina and Circadian Rhythms: 1 (Springer Series in by Gianluca Tosini,P. Michael Iuvone,Douglas G. McMahon,Shaun

Mammal Teeth

During this exact publication, Peter S. Ungar tells the tale of mammalian enamel 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 a thousand million years in the past. Ungar describes how the straightforward conical enamel of early vertebrates grew to become 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 relations shared the outstanding event of heavily gazing pairs of western screech owls that occupied a nesting field outdoors the window in their woodland domestic. The journals during which the writer recorded his observations, and the alluring 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 sleek 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 woman Vertebrates makes a speciality of 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 lady attitudes towards men. It additionally seems to be on the evolution of mating platforms; the co-evolution of the sexes; sex-role reversal; reproductive festival among women; maternal habit; and the way women increase the funding obtained by means of their offspring from others.