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 ch

The Evolution of Insects explores what we know about insect evolution, from theories of the past to recent breakthroughs in research. This title also looks at t

Chronicles the evolution of insects and explains how evolutionary innovations have enabled them to disperse widely, occupy narrow niches, and survive global cat

This book was developed out of a symposium at the XVII International Congress of Entomology held in Hamburg, Germany, on August 21, 1984. This symposium was org

This is the first single book to cover the whole of the fossil history of insects so comprehensively. The volume embraces subjects from the history of insect pa