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The Evolution of Insect Flight (Oxford science publications) - Softcover

Andrei K. Brodsky

 
9780198500896: The Evolution of Insect Flight (Oxford science publications)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0198500890 ISBN 13: 9780198500896
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA, 1997

Synopsis

The hardback edition of this book was the first on insect flight since J W S Pringle's classic Insect Flight was published in 1957. Since then, much has been written on the ecological aspects of flight, but the question of the origin of wings and flight, their structural concomitants, and related aerodynamical issues have been confined to armchair speculation in a scattered literature. The book draws a coherent, empirically based picture of how insect flight may have evolved.

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Review

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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Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Publication date
1997
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0198500890
ISBN 13 
9780198500896
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
244