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Insects are the most diverse group of organisms in the 3 billion-year history of life on Earth, and the most ecologically dominant animals on land. 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. The book is illustrated with 955 photo- and electronmicrographs, drawings, diagrams, and field photos, many in full colour and virtually all of them original. The book will appeal to anyone engaged with insect diversity: professional entomologists and students, insect and fossil collectors, and naturalists.
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本の装丁・分厚さ、非常に数多くのカラー写真など
どかーんと百科事典みたいな琥珀の昆虫の本です。
ハードカバーで重いです！
英語がもっとスラスラ理解できたらいいのになあって思いますが
見てるだけでも嬉しい。
現代の虫だとこういうもの....というふうに
今の虫での生態と琥珀の中の虫が対比されていたり
じつに多くの情報があります。
古生物と同様に生きている昆虫に関して
多くも挿入されているのです。
昆虫研究の歴史、現代の昆虫の歴史と未来の疑問。
カラフルで、適切なイラスト。
アジアの化石にも多くのイラストで、昆虫の歴史があります。
琥珀の好きなひとも昆虫の好きな生物学的興味の人も
この本はすばらしいです。
どかーんと百科事典みたいな琥珀の昆虫の本です。
ハードカバーで重いです！
英語がもっとスラスラ理解できたらいいのになあって思いますが
見てるだけでも嬉しい。
現代の虫だとこういうもの....というふうに
今の虫での生態と琥珀の中の虫が対比されていたり
じつに多くの情報があります。
古生物と同様に生きている昆虫に関して
多くも挿入されているのです。
昆虫研究の歴史、現代の昆虫の歴史と未来の疑問。
カラフルで、適切なイラスト。
アジアの化石にも多くのイラストで、昆虫の歴史があります。
琥珀の好きなひとも昆虫の好きな生物学的興味の人も
この本はすばらしいです。
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Best Book on Old Bugs!
2005/5/30
形式:ハードカバー|Amazonが確認した購入
When I read "History of Insects" by Rasnitsyn & Quicke, I was happy, when I read "Evolution of the Insects" I became ecstatic! This book has colorful, well chosen illustrations that illuminate the chapters. The book is well written to the point of being hard to put down.
The authors have included much about living insects which will make this accessible volume useful to biologists as well as paleontologists. Teachers and libraries ought to have this book.
Fossil collectors and naturalists will be drawn to it.
The price of this hardbound treasure is low enough to be irresistable. To be sure, there are some errors; all chert is not volcanic(P. 49), and the 'spider' in photo 2.4 on P. 45 is actually the Holotype of a whip scorpion relative called a Schizomid. The authors accept impact for the Triassic mass extinction which is still debated, while curiously balking to accept the widely acknowledged impact termination to the Cretaceous.
All in all, this is a MUST HAVE book. I still love the more technical "History of Insects" for its many illustrations of Asian fossils which are seldom seen in
English language publications.
"Evolution of the Insects" is perhaps the finest treatment yet given to any fossil group!
The authors have included much about living insects which will make this accessible volume useful to biologists as well as paleontologists. Teachers and libraries ought to have this book.
Fossil collectors and naturalists will be drawn to it.
The price of this hardbound treasure is low enough to be irresistable. To be sure, there are some errors; all chert is not volcanic(P. 49), and the 'spider' in photo 2.4 on P. 45 is actually the Holotype of a whip scorpion relative called a Schizomid. The authors accept impact for the Triassic mass extinction which is still debated, while curiously balking to accept the widely acknowledged impact termination to the Cretaceous.
All in all, this is a MUST HAVE book. I still love the more technical "History of Insects" for its many illustrations of Asian fossils which are seldom seen in
English language publications.
"Evolution of the Insects" is perhaps the finest treatment yet given to any fossil group!
26 人中、26人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
The Definitive Work
2005/6/17
形式:ハードカバー
Every so often a breakthrough book is published afterwhich everything that follows will be different. This is one of those books. This is the most complete, the most detailed and easily the best illustrated book on insect evolution ever even attempted.
The cover photograph (a 120 million year old orthopteran of the extinct family Elcanidae) sets the tone. This photograph is as complete and beautifully made as if it were taken yesterday of a living insect. And this is only one outstanding picture. Altogether there are 995 photographs and illustrations in the book, the majority of which are in color.
Extensively researched, there are some 70 pages (large size pages) of references. Every aspect of insect evolution is at least touched upon from the history of the prominent scientists to the insects themselves as they began, developed wings and other distinguishing features, evolved to the forms we see today.
This is the definitive book on the subject.
The cover photograph (a 120 million year old orthopteran of the extinct family Elcanidae) sets the tone. This photograph is as complete and beautifully made as if it were taken yesterday of a living insect. And this is only one outstanding picture. Altogether there are 995 photographs and illustrations in the book, the majority of which are in color.
Extensively researched, there are some 70 pages (large size pages) of references. Every aspect of insect evolution is at least touched upon from the history of the prominent scientists to the insects themselves as they began, developed wings and other distinguishing features, evolved to the forms we see today.
This is the definitive book on the subject.
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Great overview
2005/8/10
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Entymologists may have a take on this that I don't, being a mere natural history buff. I actually read the first 250 pages straight through (in bed - no mean trick with this 10 pound item), then browsed the rest for information, returning to steady reading at the end. The beginning chapters give a history of insect studies and go at some questions of general interest (what was the evolutionary history of the development of insect wings, for example... fascinating stuff). The final chapters deal with general questions of modern insect history and the future in our increasingly screwed up planet. Both the beginning and end of the book could be read usefully as essays in themselves. The great middle bulk deals with the evolution of the particular families and orders, and is,again, full of interesting details (no, the modern roach doesn't go back to the Carboniferous, no matter what they say in the Exterminex commercial!)
So the technical (but perfectly clear) middle five hundred pages becomes for me a once-scanned part of my reference library to which I'm sure I'll be returning many times. For me, not being a trained biologist, one good feature of the book is that I got a - hopefully partially retainable - idea of the various ages and epochs in geological time (how many times have I tried to get those down?) and a general notion of the various features of groups of insects and their relationships to one another. I think it's much easier to retain this information in the framework of evolutionary history than from a field guide or books on specific groups. But ask me again in a year. Of course, the book is very well illustrated and generously sprinkled with graphs and timelines.
So the technical (but perfectly clear) middle five hundred pages becomes for me a once-scanned part of my reference library to which I'm sure I'll be returning many times. For me, not being a trained biologist, one good feature of the book is that I got a - hopefully partially retainable - idea of the various ages and epochs in geological time (how many times have I tried to get those down?) and a general notion of the various features of groups of insects and their relationships to one another. I think it's much easier to retain this information in the framework of evolutionary history than from a field guide or books on specific groups. But ask me again in a year. Of course, the book is very well illustrated and generously sprinkled with graphs and timelines.
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