Social Learning: Psychological and Biological Perspectives by Thomas R. Zentall,Jr., B. G. Galef

Mammal Teeth

During this distinctive e-book, Peter S. Ungar tells the tale of mammalian tooth from their starting place via their evolution to their present range. Mammal tooth lines the evolutionary background of the teeth, starting with the first actual mineralized vertebrate buildings part one billion years in the past. Ungar describes how the straightforward conical enamel 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 striking event of heavily staring at pairs of western screech owls that occupied a nesting field outdoor the window in their woodland domestic. The journals during which the writer recorded his observations, and the attractive 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 smooth 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 woman attitudes towards men. It additionally seems on the evolution of mating structures; the co-evolution of the sexes; sex-role reversal; reproductive festival among ladies; maternal habit; and the way women improve the funding got by way of their offspring from others.