Evolution of the insects /

"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 i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Grimaldi, David A.
Otros Autores: Engel, Michael S.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge [U.K.] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Temas:
Insects > Evolution.
Insects.
Insecta
Evolution
Insectes > Évolution.
Insectes.
Insecta (class)
NATURE > Animals > Insects & Spiders.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Zoology > Entomology.
Insects
Insects > Evolution
Insekten
Insecten.
Evolutionaire biologie.
Insecta.
Evolução.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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