| History of Insects Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): Russian Academy of Sciences Paleontologi (Editor), Quicke, Donald L. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9048158303 ISBN-13: 9789048158300 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $522.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2010 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Science | Paleontology - Science | Life Sciences - Zoology - Entomology - Science | Life Sciences - Zoology - Invertebrates |
| Dewey: 565.7 |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 8.1" W x 10.7" (2.70 lbs) 517 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Insects are not dinosaurs - and they probably pose us more strange ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS puzzles and unexpected questions. A million extant species, that is sev- For A. P. Rasnitsyn, preparing of various parts of this book was s- eral times more than all other living taxa together, is still a very c- ported in part by grants: by the International Science Foundation, by servative estimate, and their real number is for sure many times more. the Leverhulme Trust to D. L. J. Quicke and M. G. Fitton; by the Royal They are incomparably diverse in terms of their size, structure and way Society Joint Project with the FSU to APR and E. A. Jarzembowski; by of life - and yet they are all small - by our standard at least - why? And ESF Project 'Fossil Insects Network'; by RFFI grants 95-04-11105, they practically ignore the cradle of life, the sea - again, why? Of 98-04-48518; by the Smithsonian Institution and California Academy course, some survive and even reproduce in salt water, but nevertheless of Sciences; and by various help, including sharing unpublished very few of them are specialised for marine life. |