Atoms of Mind: The "Ghost in the Machine" Materializes by W.R. Klemm

Mammal Teeth

During this distinctive booklet, Peter S. Ungar tells the tale of mammalian tooth from their starting place via their evolution to their present range. Mammal the teeth lines the evolutionary background of tooth, starting with the first actual mineralized vertebrate buildings part one thousand million years in the past. Ungar describes how the straightforward conical the teeth 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 kinfolk shared the amazing event of heavily staring at pairs of western screech owls that occupied a nesting field open air the window in their wooded area domestic. The journals during which the writer recorded his observations, and the alluring 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 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 lady Vertebrates makes a speciality of the evolution of reproductive habit in woman 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 festival among ladies; maternal habit; and the way adult females improve the funding obtained by means of their offspring from others.