The Evolution of Insect Flight - Couverture rigide

Brodskii, Andrei K.

 
9780198546818: The Evolution of Insect Flight
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0198546815 ISBN 13 : 9780198546818
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 1994

Synopsis

By uniting fossil, structural, and phylogenetic information with empirical studies this work draws a coherent, empirically-based picture of how insect flight may have evolved. Entomologists, evolutionary biologists, biomechanicists, taxonomists should find this book of value.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The hardback edition of this was the first book on insect flight since J W S Pringle's classic Insect Flight was published in 1957. Much has been written since on applied and ecological aspects of flight, but the question of the origin of wings and flight, their structural concomitants, and the related aerodynamical issues have been confined largely to armchair speculation in a scattered literature. This book is written by a leading authority on insect flight, and for the first time draws a coherent, empirically based picture of how insect flight may have evolved. Following excellent reviews the book is now being made available in paperback.

Revue de presse

From reviews of the hardback: The general account of flight occupies a third of the book, and will be widely useful ... but for the anatomy, mechanisms and evolution of insect flight it has no rivals. Nature The Evolution of Insect Flight has been well worth waiting for. It is a remarkable work, quite outstanding in its scope and breadth of vision ... what has surprised and delighted me is the magnificent functional treatment of the morphology of the flight system as a whole. Trends in Ecology and Evolution

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press
Date d'édition
1994
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0198546815
ISBN 13 
9780198546818
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
243
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780198500896: The Evolution of Insect Flight (Oxford science publications)

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0198500890 ISBN 13 :  9780198500896
Editeur : Oxford University Press, USA, 1997
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