Natural History Books

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21. Viking DNA

    The Wirral and West Lancashire Project

    By Stephen E. Harding, Mark Jobling, Turi King

    Published November 30th 2010 by CRC Press
22. The Biology of Lungfishes

    Edited by Jorden Morup Jorgensen, Jean Joss

    The Biology of Lungfishes presents an up-to-date collection of reviews on some of the most important aspects of the life of lungfishes. The book draws on contributions from well-known experts with a long record of scientific work within their respective fields. The general natural history of the...

    Published November 28th 2010 by Science Publishers
23. Photographic and Descriptive Musculoskeletal Atlas of Gorilla

    With Notes on the Attachments, Variations, Innervation, Synonymy and Weight of the Muscles

    Edited by Rui Diogo, Josep M. Potau, Juan F. Pastor, Felix J. dePaz, Eva M. Ferrero, Gaelle Bello, Mercedex Barbosa, Bernard A. Wood

    Even though the gorilla is our closest living relative, information about its anatomy, and particularly its musculature, is scarce. This book is the first photographic and descriptive musculoskeletal atlas of the gorilla. It includes high-quality photographs of musculoskeletal structures from most...

    Published November 2nd 2010 by Science Publishers
24. African Palaeoenvironments and Geomorphic Landscape Evolution

    Palaeoecology of Africa Vol. 30, An International Yearbook of Landscape Evolution and Palaeoenvironments

    Edited by Jürgen Runge

    Series: Palaeoecology of Africa

    This 30st jubilee volume (2010) of "Palaeoecology of Africa" looks back and reflects the "state of the art" of what is actually known on former African climates and ecosystems in the format of review articles authored by specialists in the field. New research articles on climate and ecosystem...

    Published October 31st 2010 by CRC Press
25. Religion and Science

    Edited by Sara Fletcher Harding, Nancy Morvillo

    Series: Critical Concepts in Religious Studies

    Integral to human nature is the need to seek understanding of the world in which we live, to discover how it works and why. We find our answers to these fundamental questions through different methods; empirical science justifies our observations of the natural world, but religion offers...

    Published October 5th 2010 by Routledge
26. Muscles of Vertebrates

    Comparative Anatomy, Evolution, Homologies and Development

    By Rui Diogo, Virginia Abdala

    The Vertebrata is one of the most speciose groups of animals, comprising more than 58,000 living species. This book provides a detailed account on the comparative anatomy, development, homologies and evolution of the head, neck, pectoral and forelimb muscles of vertebrates. It includes hundreds of...

    Published July 20th 2010 by Science Publishers
27. Ethnoveterinary Botanical Medicine

    Herbal Medicines for Animal Health

    Edited by David R. Katerere, Dibungi Luseba

    Despite the undoubted success of a scientific approach to pharmaceuticals, the last few decades have witnessed a spectacular rise in interest in herbal medicinal products. This general interest has been followed by increasing scientific and commercial attention that led to the coining of the term...

    Published June 22nd 2010 by CRC Press
28. Rice

    Origin, Antiquity and History

    Edited by S. D. Sharma

    During the last nine millennia or so, man has improved the rice plant, increased its productivity and has found various uses of its parts. The story of rice differs from region to region and has been different in different periods of time. There was a time when tax was collected in the form of rice...

    Published May 26th 2010 by Science Publishers
29. Biological Clock in Fish

    Edited by Ewa Kulczykowska, Wlodzimierz Popek, B.G. Kapoor

    Each organism has its own internal biological clock, which is reset by environmental cues (Zeitgebers), thus keeping it synchronized with the external environment. It is a chemically based oscillating system within cells, relying on molecular feedback loops. Circadian biological clocks exist in...

    Published May 26th 2010 by Science Publishers
30. Biology of Subterranean Fishes

    Edited by Eleonora Trajano, Maria Elina Bichuette, B.G. Kapoor

    In most habitats, adaptations are the single most obvious aspects of an organism’s phenotype. However, the most obvious feature of many subterranean animals are losses, not adaptations. Even Darwin saw subterranean animals as degenerates: examples of eyelessness and loss of structure in general....

    Published May 19th 2010 by Science Publishers