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Evolution of the Insects
Cambridge University Press - (ISBN-13: 9780521821490)
Published June 2005
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Price:
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£ 53.00
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Author(s):
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David Grimaldi
American Museum of Natural History, New York
Michael S.Engel
University of Kansas Natural History Museum
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Description:
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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 focused 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.
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Contents List:
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Section 1. Diversity and Evolution: Introduction; Species: their nature
and number; How many species of insects?; Reconstructing evolutionary
history; Section 2. Fossil Insects: Insect fossilization; Dating and
ages; Major fossil Insect deposits; 3. Arthropods and the Origin of
Insects: Onychophora: the velvet-worms; Tardigrada: the water-bears;
Arthropoda: the jointed animals; Hexapoda: the six-legged arthropods;
Section 4. The insects: Morphology of insects; Relationships among the
insect orders; Section 5. Earliest insects: Archaeognatha: the
bristletails; Zygentoma: the silverfish; †Rhyniognatha; Section 6.
Insects Take to the Skies: Pterygota, Wings, and flight; Ephemeroptera:
the mayflies; †Palaeodictyopterida: extinct beaked insects; Odonatoptera:
dragonflies and early relatives; Neoptera; Section 7. The Polyneopterous
Orders: Plecopterida; Orthopterida; Plecoptera: the stoneflies; Embiodea:
the webspinners; Zoraptera: the Zorapterans; Orthoptera: the
grasshoppers, crickets, and kin; Phasmatodea: the stick- and leaf
insects; †Titanoptera: the titanic crawlers; †Caloneurodea: the
Caloneurodeans; Dermaptera: the earwigs; Grylloblattodea: the ice
crawlers; Mantophasmatodea: the African rock crawlers; Dictyoptera;
Blattodea: the roaches; Citizen roach: the termites; Mantodea: the
mantises; Section 8. The Paraneopteran Orders: Psocoptera: the
‘bark’lice; Phthiraptera: the true lice; Fringe wings: Thysanoptera (thrips);
The sucking bugs: Hemiptera; Section 9. The Holometabola: problematic
fossil orders; The origins of complete metamorphosis; On wings of lace:
Neuropterida; Section 10. Coleoptera: early fossils and overview of past
diversity; Archostemata; Adephaga; Myxophaga; Polyphaga; Strepsiptera:
the enigmatic order; Section 11. Hymenoptera: Ants, Bees, and Other
Wasps: The Euhymenoptera and parasitism; Aculeata; Evolution of insect
sociality; Section 12. Antliophora: Scorpionflies, Flies, and Fleas:
Mecopterida: mecopterans and relatives; Siphonaptera: the fleas;
Evolution of ectoparasites and blood-feeders; Diptera: the true flies;
Section 13. Amphiesmenoptera: The Caddisflies and Lepidoptera:
Trichoptera: the caddisflies; Lepidoptera: the moths and butterflies;
Section 14. Insects Become Modern: Cretaceous and Tertiary Periods: The
Cretaceous; flowering of the world: the Angiosperm Radiations; Plant sex
and insects: insect pollination; Radiations of Phytophagous insects;
Austral arthropods: remnants of Gondwana?; Insects, mass extinctions,
and the K/T boundary; The tertiary; Mammalian radiations; Pleistocene
dispersal and species lifespans; Island faunas; Section 15. Epilogue:
Why so many insect species?; The future; Glossary; References; Index.
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Reviews: |
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'A landmark contribution, not just to entomology and evolutionary
biology, but to the life sciences as a whole. Beautifully conceived,
splendidly written, and exquisitely illustrated… Bound to remain a
primary scientific reference for years to come.A must for naturalists,
young and old. Truly a definitive work. 'Thomas Eisner, Cornell
University, author of For Love of Insects.
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Publisher:
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Cambridge University Press.
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