Alzheimer's Disease: Advances in Genetics, Molecular and by Sangram S. Sisodia,Rudolph E. Tanzi

Mammal Teeth

During this specific booklet, Peter S. Ungar tells the tale of mammalian enamel from their foundation via their evolution to their present range. Mammal the teeth lines the evolutionary background of the teeth, starting with the first actual mineralized vertebrate constructions part a thousand million years in the past. Ungar describes how the easy conical enamel of early vertebrates turned 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 relatives shared the impressive event of heavily looking at 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 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 glossy classics One Man’s Owl and brain of the Raven, Bernd Heinrich has written memorably approximately his relationships with wild ravens and an outstanding 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 appears on the evolution of mating platforms; the co-evolution of the sexes; sex-role reversal; reproductive pageant among women; maternal habit; and the way adult females improve the funding acquired through their offspring from others.