TY - BOOK AU - Grimaldi, David A. AU - Engel, Michael S. TI - Evolution of the insects SN - 0-521-82149-5 AV - R QL 468.7 .G88 2005 PY - 2005/// CY - New York PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Insects KW - sears N2 - Chronicles the complete evolutionary history of insects: their living diversity, relationships, and 400 million years of fossils. Illustrated with more than 900 photo- and electron micrographs, drawings, diagrams, and field photographs.Contents:Diversity and evolutions,Fossil insects,Anthropods 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,Panorpida:Antiophora and amphiesmenoptera,Amphiesmenoptera:The Caddisflies and lepidoptera ,Insects become modern:The cretaceous and tertiary periods,Epilogue ER -