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Essentials of Physical Anthropology
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Robert Jurmain
This volume covers basic evolutionary theory, human genetics, growth and development, non-human primates, paleoanthropology, and modern population biology to illustrate the physical and behavioural evolution of human beings.
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Principles of Neural Science
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Eric R Kandel, M.D.
This is the most authoritative introduction to the brain, its structure, function, development, and control of behavior available today. It presents both a comprehensive summary of the state of the science and a full discussion of historical issues in the study of the brain. Neuroanatomy, cell and molecular mechanisms, mechanisms, of signaling, ...
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Inquiry Into Life
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Sylvia S. Mader
This book includes basic biological concepts and processes with a human emphasis. From the unique delivery of biology content, to the time tested art program, to the complete integration of the text with technology, Dr. Sylvia Mader has formed a teaching system that will both motivate and enable your students to understand and appreciate the ...
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Introduction to Physical Anthropology
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Robert Jurmain
INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY continues to present a comprehensive, well-balanced introduction to the field, combining an engaging writing style and compelling visual content to bring the study of physical anthropology to life for today's students. With a focus on the big picture of human evolution, the text helps students master the basic ...
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Biological Anthropology
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Michael Alan Park
This concise introduction to biological anthropology discusses the core areas of the discipline within a unique framework modeled on the scientific method. The text emphasizes themes and theories: facts are presented as supportive evidence rather than dissociated pieces of information. Each chapter poses questions that get at the heart of the ...
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Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior
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Temple Grandin, Catherine Johnson
One of the world's most celebrated animal scientists merges a lifetime of study with her extraordinary perceptions as an autistic person in a groundbreaking book that revolutionizes the understanding of how animals think and feel.
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The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional World of Farm Animals
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Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, PH.D.
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, whose books take up the cause of animals as sentient beings, now explores the world of farm animals, making a case for their humane treatment and an end to exploitation.
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Rats: Observations on the History and Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabi
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Robert Sullivan
The "New York Times" bestseller, now available in paperback with an all-new Afterword by the author. Funny, wise, sometimes disgusting but always compulsively readable, "Rats" earns its unlikely place alongside the great classics of nature writing.
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Never Cry Wolf
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Farley Mowat
This inquiry begins with the puzzle of sibling relations. Why are individuals from the same family little more similar in personality than people from different families? Why doesn't a shared family environment lead to similar values and beliefs? Sulloway suggests a fresh way of understanding how family affects individual development. Among ...
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Pictorial anatomy of the cat
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Stephen G. Gilbert
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Human Heredity: Principles & Issues
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Michael R Cummings
Addressing the needs of human genetics students, this text explains complex concepts.
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The Safari Companion: A Guide to Watching African Mammals; Including Hoofed Mammals, Carnivores, and Primates
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Richard D Estes, Daniel Otte (Illustrator), Kathryn S Fuller (Foreword by)
ildlife-viewing safari, the guide allows even a novice wildlife observer to understand the behavior of nearly one hundred large mammals, from antelopes, hippos and elephants to lions, monkeys and gorillas. 100 illustrations.
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Time, Love, Memory: A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior
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Professor Jonathan Weiner
Focusing on the genes that determine human behaviour, this book discusses how human beings' emotional responses can be genetically isolated and manipulated. The author also considers the political and social implications of this scientific breakthrough.
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Human Genetics: Concepts & Applications
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Ricki Lewis
"Human Genetics: Concepts and Applications, Ninth Edition", is a non-science major's human genetics text that clearly explains what genes are, how they function, how they interact with the environment, and how our understanding of genetics has changed since completion of the human genome project. Meticulously updated, focused on concepts, and rich ...
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The Human Species: An Introduction to Biological Anthropology
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John H Relethford
A new introductory text that covers all the major topics of contemporary biological anthropology this emphasizes the relationship between biology and culture. The chapter covering genetic drift and gene flow uniquely focuses on human populations. Case studies of the Dunkers, rain forest Amerindians, and other groups make these abstract concepts ...
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A field guide to animal tracks
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Olaus Johan Murie
This all-new edition includes descriptions of the habits, habitats, tracks, signs, and ranges of all the mammals of North America, as well as of selected birds, reptiles, amphibians, and insects. More than 1,000 line drawings and 100 color photographs further enhance the text.
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The Cowboy and His Elephant: The Story of a Remarkable Friendship
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Malcolm MacPherson
Ex-Marlboro Man Bob Norris was beginning to find life on the ranch a mite ordinary until he offered stable space to six African baby elephants en route to the circus. During his tenure as caretaker, he fell for Amy, a particularly sickly baby elephant, and a unique friendship blossomed. Instead of handing her over to clowns, Norris paid $18,000 to ...
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Why is Sex Fun?: The Evolution of Human Sexuality
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Jared Diamond
To us humans the sex lives of many animals seem weird. In fact, by comparison with all the other animals, we are the ones with the weird sex lives. How did that come to be?Just count our bizarre ways. We are the only social species to insist on carrying out sex privately. Stranger yet, we have sex at any time, even when the female cant be ...
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Mammals
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John O Whitaker, Jr.
Information on the behavior, habitats, and characteristics of the 390 species of mammals that live in North America.
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Is a camel a mammal?
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Tish Rabe, Jim Durk
"From fruit eating bats to smart chimpanzees, from moles in their holes to seals in the seas", Dr. Seuss' famous Cat in the Hat takes young readers on a fun-filled tour of the world of mammals. This title forms part of a series of books that takes a look at natural history through a fun combination of Seussian rhymes and zany illustrations. Aimed ...
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Biological Anthropology: An Introductory Reader
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Michael Alan Park
This supplementary reader is composed of both historical and contemporary articles that demonstrate the significant contributions made by biological anthropology. With nearly a third of the selections focusing on living populations, the 42 articles cover the entire range of bioanthropological studies: evolution, nonhuman primates, human ...
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The Whale Warriors: The Battle at the Bottom of the World to Save the Planet's Largest Mammals
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Peter Heller
For two months, journalist Heller was aboard the pirate ship the "Farley Mowat" as it stalked its prey--a Japanese whaling fleet. Now, Heller chronicles this hair-raising journey, whose mission was to stop illegal whaling in the stormy, remote seas off Antarctica. 288.
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Man-Eaters of Kumaon
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Jim Corbett
Corbett, an Englishman born and raised in India, recounts his adventures during 30 years of hunting and killing tigers around his home state of Kumaon.
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Complete Guide to Prehistoric Life
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Tim Haines, Paul Chambers
An illustrated guide to 112 beasts dating from the Cambrian Period to the Pleistocene Epoch, with profiles on physical characteristics, lifestyle, habitat, behavior and distribution across prehistoric earth. A companion to a new Discovery Channel series.
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The wolves of Mount McKinley
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Adolph Murie
In the time of Lewis and Clark, wolves were abundant throughout North America from the Arctic regions to Mexico. But man declared war on this cunning and powerful animal when cattle replaced the buffalo on the western plains, reducing the wolf's range to those few areas in the Far North where economic necessity did not call for its extinction. ...
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