Evolution of the insects / David Grimaldi, Michael S. Engel.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Cambridge University Press, c2005.Description: xv, 755 p. : ill. 30 cmISBN:- 0-521-82149-5
- R QL 468.7 .G88 2005
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Reference | Aklatang Emilio Aguinaldo-Information Resource Center Reference | QL 468.7 .G88 2005 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Not for loan | 3AEA0000289526 |
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.
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