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Author: A.P. Rasnitsyn
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2006-05-05
Total Pages: 524
ISBN-13: 0306475774
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first single book to cover the whole of the fossil history of insects so comprehensively. The volume embraces subjects from the history of insect palaeontology to the diagnostic features of all insect orders, both extant and extinct.
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Published: 1820
Total Pages: 28
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA father tells his child about the wonder of the natural world from a Christian point of view.
Author: David Grimaldi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-05-16
Total Pages: 790
ISBN-13: 9780521821490
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInsects 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.
Author: Sarah Albee
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2014-04-15
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 0802734227
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA funny, insightful exploration of the clash between the human and insect worlds - to sometimes disastrous results
Author: Steven A. Marshall
Publisher: Richmond Hill, Ont. : Firefly Books
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 790
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn examination of the characteristics, habitat and behavior of insects, including comprehensive picture keys for insect identification.
Author: Scott Richard Shaw
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2014-09-11
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 022616361X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChronicles the evolution of insects and explains how evolutionary innovations have enabled them to disperse widely, occupy narrow niches, and survive global catastrophes. --Publisher's description.
Author: Ted R Schultz
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2022-02-22
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 0262543206
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContributors explore common elements in the evolutionary histories of both human and insect agriculture resulting from convergent evolution. During the past 12,000 years, agriculture originated in humans as many as twenty-three times, and during the past 65 million years, agriculture also originated in nonhuman animals at least twenty times and in insects at least fifteen times. It is much more likely that these independent origins represent similar solutions to the challenge of growing food than that they are due purely to chance. This volume seeks to identify common elements in the evolutionary histories of both human and insect agriculture that are the results of convergent evolution. The goal is to create a new, synthetic field that characterizes, quantifies, and empirically documents the evolutionary and ecological mechanisms that drive both human and nonhuman agriculture. The contributors report on the results of quantitative analyses comparing human and nonhuman agriculture; discuss evolutionary conflicts of interest between and among farmers and cultivars and how they interfere with efficiencies of agricultural symbiosis; describe in detail agriculture in termites, ambrosia beetles, and ants; and consider patterns of evolutionary convergence in different aspects of agriculture, comparing fungal parasites of ant agriculture with fungal parasites of human agriculture, analyzing the effects of agriculture on human anatomy, and tracing the similarities and differences between the evolution of agriculture in humans and in a single, relatively well-studied insect group, fungus-farming ants.
Author: Julie J. Lesnik
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2019-02-13
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 0813065089
DOWNLOAD EBOOKResearchers who study ancient human diets tend to focus on meat eating because the practice of butchery is very apparent in the archaeological record. In this volume, Julie Lesnik highlights a different food source, tracing evidence that humans and their hominin ancestors also consumed insects throughout the entire course of human evolution. Lesnik combines primatology, sociocultural anthropology, reproductive physiology, and paleoanthropology to examine the role of insects in the diets of hunter-gatherers and our nonhuman primate cousins. She posits that women would likely spend more time foraging for and eating insects than men, arguing that this pattern is important to note because women are too often ignored in reconstructions of ancient human behavior. Because of the abundance of insects and the low risk of acquiring them, insects were a reliable food source that mothers used to feed their families over the past five million years. Although they are consumed worldwide to this day, insects are not usually considered food in Western societies. Tying together ancient history with our modern lives, Lesnik points out that insects are highly nutritious and a very sustainable protein alternative. She believes that if we accept that edible insects are a part of the human legacy, we may have new conversations about what is good to eat—both in past diets and for the future of food.
Author: Jerry A. Powell
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9780520037823
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is that creature that just landed on my arm? What will that funny-looking caterpillar turn into? What do lady-bugs eat? This book will help you to answer such questions (and many more) about your local insects. - From inside cover.
Author: Martin Walters
Publisher: Armadillo
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781844764686
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the arthropoda phylum, insects are one of the most successful species, and spiders are one of the largest groups. This book studies how they organize their lives. The first section provides information of every aspect of insect life: evolution, anatomy, life cycles, flight and social organization. The last section describes the 30 orders within the class Insecta, demonstrating the huge variety of insects, from microscopic creatures to giant stick insects and large beetles. Typical features of insects in each order are highlighted. With expert text, illustrations and clear photographs, this guide will be enjoyed by all who take an interest in natural history.
