Twilight of the Mammoths: Ice Age Extinctions and the by Paul S. Martin,Harry W. Greene

Mammal Teeth

During this particular booklet, Peter S. Ungar tells the tale of mammalian enamel from their starting place via their evolution to their present variety. Mammal the teeth strains the evolutionary historical past 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 turned 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 relatives shared the awesome adventure of heavily watching pairs of western screech owls that occupied a nesting field open air the window in their woodland domestic. The journals during 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 woman Vertebrates specializes in 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 structures; the co-evolution of the sexes; sex-role reversal; reproductive pageant among ladies; maternal habit; and the way adult females increase the funding bought through their offspring from others.