Cancer Genes: Functional Aspects (Pezcoller Foundation by Enrico Mihich,David Housman

Mammal Teeth

During this distinctive ebook, Peter S. Ungar tells the tale of mammalian tooth from their starting place via their evolution to their present variety. Mammal the teeth strains the evolutionary background of the teeth, starting with the first actual mineralized vertebrate constructions part one thousand million years in the past. Ungar describes how the straightforward 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 kin shared the extraordinary adventure of heavily watching pairs of western screech owls that occupied a nesting field outdoors the window in their wooded area domestic. The journals during which the writer recorded his observations, and the beautiful 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 smooth 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 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 to be like on the evolution of mating platforms; the co-evolution of the sexes; sex-role reversal; reproductive festival among ladies; maternal habit; and the way women increase the funding obtained by way of their offspring from others.