Evolution of the Insects

David Grimaldi, Michael S. Engel

768 pages, parution le 31/05/2005

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Insects are the most diverse group of organisms in the 3 billion-year history of life on Earth, and the most ecologically dominant animals on land. This book chronicles for the first time the complete evolutionary history of insects: their living diversity, relationships and 400 million years of fossils. Whereas other volumes have focussed on either living species or fossils, this is the first comprehensive synthesis of all aspects of insect evolution. The book is illustrated with 955 photo- and electronmicrographs, drawings, diagrams, and field photos, many in full colour and virtually all of them original. The book will appeal to anyone engaged with insect diversity: professional entomologists and students, insect and fossil collectors, and naturalists.

The first complete evolutionary history of Insects
Covers both living and extinct species
Beautifully illustrated with almost 1000 images, many in full colour and almost all original

L'auteur - David Grimaldi

David Grimaldi : American Museum of Natural History, New York

Sommaire

Section 1. Diversity and Evolution
Section 2. Fossil Insects: Insect fossilization
Section 3. Arthropods and the Origin of Insects
Section 4. The insects: Morphology of insects
Section 5. Earliest insects: Archaeognatha
Section 6. Insects Take to the Skies: Pterygota, Wings, and flight
Section 7. The Polyneopterous Orders: Plecopterida
Section 8. The Paraneopteran Orders: Psocoptera: the 'bark'lice
Section 10. Coleoptera: early fossils and overview of past diversity
Section 11. Hymenoptera: Ants, Bees, and Other Wasps
Section 12. Antliophora: Scorpionflies, Flies, and Fleas
Section 13. Amphiesmenoptera
Section 14. Insects Become Modern: Cretaceous and Tertiary Periods
Section 15. Epilogue: Why so many insect species?
The future
Glossary
References
Index

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Éditeur(s)	Cambridge University Press
Auteur(s)	David Grimaldi, Michael S. Engel
Parution	31/05/2005
Nb. de pages	768
Format	23 x 30
Couverture	Relié
Poids	760g
Intérieur	Quadri
EAN13	9780521821490
ISBN13	978-0-521-82149-0