Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Grimaldi, David A.

Publication

Cambridge [U.K.] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.

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Additional Authors

Engel, Michael S.

Description

xv, 755 pages : illustrations (some color); 30 cm

Summary

"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.

Subjects

• Evolução
• Insecta
• Evolutionaire biologie
• Insecten
• Phylogenie
• Insekten
• Fossile Insekten
• Evolution
• Insects > Evolution
• Insecta (class)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN

• 0521821495
• 9780521821490

LCCN

• 2004054605
• 9780521821490

OCLC

• ocm56057971
• 56057971
• SCSB-1359682

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library