Primate Ethnographies by Karen B. Strier

Mammal Teeth

During this exact booklet, Peter S. Ungar tells the tale of mammalian tooth from their starting place via their evolution to their present variety. Mammal tooth lines the evolutionary historical past of the teeth, starting with the first actual mineralized vertebrate buildings part 1000000000 years in the past. Ungar describes how the straightforward conical enamel 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 relations shared the impressive adventure of heavily gazing pairs of western screech owls that occupied a nesting field outdoors the window in their wooded area domestic. The journals within which the writer recorded his observations, and the appealing 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 sleek 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 girl 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 on the evolution of mating platforms; the co-evolution of the sexes; sex-role reversal; reproductive pageant among ladies; maternal habit; and the way ladies increase the funding bought via their offspring from others.