Evolution of the insects / David Grimaldi, Michael S. Engel.

By:

Grimaldi, David A

Contributor(s):

Engel, Michael S

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge [U.K.] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 755 pages) : illustrations (some color)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780511126024
0511126026
9780511123887
0511123884
9780511125164
051112516X
9780511199370
0511199376
0521821495
9780521821490
1316085864
9781316085868
1299772420
9781299772427
0511182147
9780511182143

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Evolution of the insects.DDC classification:

595.7/138 22

LOC classification:

QL468.7 .G75 2005eb

NLM classification:

QL 468.7 G861e 2005

Other classification:

42.75
42.21
WH 7300
WH 7800
BIO 745f
BIO 829f

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Contents:

Diversity and evolution -- Fossil insects -- Arthropods and the origin of insects -- The insects -- Earliest insects -- Insects take to the skies -- Polyneoptera -- The Paraneopteran orders -- The Holometabola -- Coleoptera and Strepsiptera -- Hymenoptera : ants, bees, and other wasps -- Antliophora : scorpionflies, fleas, and true flies -- Amphiesmenoptera : the caddisflies and Lepidoptera -- Insects become modern : the Cretaceous and Tertiary periods.

Review: "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. Current estimates of phylogeny are used to interpret the 400-million-year fossil record of insects, their extinctions, and radiations." "Evolution of the Insects is beautifully illustrated with more than 900 photo- and electron micrographs, drawings, diagrams, and field photographs, many in full color and virtually all original. The book will appeal to anyone engaged with insect diversity: professional entomologists and students, insect and fossil collectors, and naturalists."--Jacket

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 662-732) and index.

"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. Current estimates of phylogeny are used to interpret the 400-million-year fossil record of insects, their extinctions, and radiations." "Evolution of the Insects is beautifully illustrated with more than 900 photo- and electron micrographs, drawings, diagrams, and field photographs, many in full color and virtually all original. The book will appeal to anyone engaged with insect diversity: professional entomologists and students, insect and fossil collectors, and naturalists."--Jacket