Authors:Karen Anderson,  Wendy Christense,
Publisher: Willow Creek Pre
Keywords: quirks, kitty, curious, collection, cats
Number of Pages: 94
Published: 2001-09-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 1572234059
ISBN-13: 9781572234055

Why do cats get stuck in trees? Why do cats bring us their latest catch? Why do cats always land on their feet? Why do cats torture their prey? These and 36 other curious cat behaviors are informatively and lightheartedly answered in the handsomely illustrated Why Cats Do That. An original pencil drawing illustrates each insightful explanation of odd but characteristic cat actions, social graces and sometimes kooky quirks.

Author: Lewis I. Held Jr
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: human, devo, evo, anatomy, quirks
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2009-05-29
List price: $34.99
ISBN-10: 0521732336
ISBN-13: 9780521732338

With the emergence of the new field of evolutionary developmental biology we are witnessing a renaissance of Darwin’s insights 150 years after his Origin of Species. Thus far, the exciting findings from "evo-devo" have only been trickling into college courses and into the domain of non-specialists. With its focus on the human organism, Quirks of Human Anatomy opens the floodgates by stating the arguments of evo-devo in plain English, and by offering a cornucopia of interesting case studies and examples. Its didactic value is enhanced by 24 schematic diagrams that integrate a host of disp