Anatomy and Physiology: Anatomy and Physiology v. 1 by Geoffrey Bourne

Mammal Teeth

During this specific booklet, Peter S. Ungar tells the tale of mammalian tooth from their foundation via their evolution to their present variety. Mammal the teeth lines the evolutionary background of tooth, starting with the first actual mineralized vertebrate buildings part a thousand million years in the past. Ungar describes how the easy conical teeth of early vertebrates turned the molars, incisors, and other kinds we see in mammals at the present time.

The House of Owls

For 1 / 4 of a century, Tony Angell and his kinfolk shared the extraordinary adventure 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 attractive drawings he created, shape the center of this compelling book—a own account of an artist-naturalist’s lifestyles 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 an excellent horned owl.

Social Behavior of Female Vertebrates

Social habit of girl 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 girl 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 obtained via their offspring from others.