The Comparative Molecular Biology of Extracellular Matrices by Harold C. Slavkin,Harold Slavkin

Mammal Teeth

During this targeted e-book, Peter S. Ungar tells the tale of mammalian the teeth from their foundation via their evolution to their present variety. Mammal the teeth strains the evolutionary historical past of the teeth, starting with the first actual mineralized vertebrate constructions part a thousand million years in the past. Ungar describes how the straightforward conical 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 relations shared the extraordinary event of heavily looking at pairs of western screech owls that occupied a nesting field outdoors the window in their woodland domestic. The journals during which the writer recorded his observations, and the eye-catching 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 good 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 components underlying lady attitudes towards men. It additionally appears on the evolution of mating structures; the co-evolution of the sexes; sex-role reversal; reproductive festival among women; maternal habit; and the way women increase the funding got through their offspring from others.