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  • Evolution of the Insects

    by David Grimaldi, Michael S. Engel ...
    Series series Cambridge Evolution Series
    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 ... Read more

    $91.89 USD

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  • The Quest for the Perfect Hive

    A History of Innovation in Bee Culture

    by Gene Kritsky ...
    Beekeeping is a sixteen-billion-dollar-a-year business. But the invaluable honey bee now faces severe threats from diseases, mites, pesticides, and overwork, not to mention the mysterious Colony Collapse Disorder, which causes seemingly healthy bees to abandon their hives en masse, never to return. In The Quest for the Perfect Hive, entomologist Gene Kritsky offers a concise, beautifully ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • How the Zebra Got Its Stripes

    by Léo Grasset ...
    Why do giraffes have such long necks? Why are zebras striped? And why does the clitoris of the female hyena exactly resemble and in most respects function like the male's penis?Deploying the latest scientific research and his own extensive observations in Africa, Léo Grasset offers answers to these questions and many more in a book of post-Darwinian Just So stories. Complex natural phenomena are ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Monarchs and Milkweed

    A Migrating Butterfly, a Poisonous Plant, and Their Remarkable Story of Coevolution

    by Anurag Agrawal ...
    The fascinating and complex evolutionary relationship of the monarch butterfly and the milkweed plantMonarch butterflies are one of nature's most recognizable creatures, known for their bright colors and epic annual migration from the United States and Canada to Mexico. Yet there is much more to the monarch than its distinctive presence and mythic journeying. In Monarchs and Milkweed, Anurag ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • Ants of Florida

    Identification and Natural History

    by Mark Deyrup ...
    Ants are familiar to every naturalist, ecologist, entomologist, and pest control operator. The identification of the 233 species of Florida ants is technically difficult, and information on Florida ants is dispersed among hundreds of technical journal articles. This book uses detailed and beautiful scientific drawings for convenient identification. To most Florida biologists ants are currently the ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Evolution of Sexual Reproduction in Marine Invertebrates

    Example of gymnolaemate bryozoans

    by Andrew (Andrey N.) Ostrovsky ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Three major aspects that distinguish this book are that (1) it contains the most detailed analysis of the sexual reproduction (oogenesis, fertilization and embryonic incubation) in a particular phylum of the aquatic invertebrates (Bryozoa) ever made; this analysis is based on an exhaustive review of the literature on that topic published over the last 260 years, as well as extensive original ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

  • Paleontology and Geology of Laetoli: Human Evolution in Context

    Volume 2: Fossil Hominins and the Associated Fauna

    Edited by Terry Harrison ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This volume 2 and its companion volume 1 present the results of new investigations into the geology, paleontology and paleoecology of the early hominin site of Laetoli in northern Tanzania. The site is one of the most important paleontological and paleoanthropological sites in Africa, worldrenowned for the discovery of fossils of the early hominin Australopithecus afarensis, as well as remarkable ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Paleogene Fossil Birds

    by Gerald Mayr ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    In the present book the Paleogene fossil record of birds is detailed for the first time on a worldwide scale. I have developed the idea for such a project for several years, and think that it is an appropriate moment to present a summary of our c- rent knowledge of the early evolution of modern birds. Meanwhile not only is there a confusing diversity of fossil taxa, but also significant progress ... Read more

    $215.09 USD

  • Short Views on Insect Genomics and Proteomics

    Insect Genomics, Vol.1

    Edited by Chandrasekar Raman, Marian R. Goldsmith, Tolulope A. Agunbiade ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Entomology as a science of inter-depended branches like molecular entomology, insect biotechnology, has made rapid progress. This also implies that there is an urgent need to manage the available resources. In the past five decades, entomology has taken giant steps ahead. The aim of this work is to integrate perspectives across molecular and biochemistry, physiology, reproduction, developmental ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Ecology, Systematics, and the Natural History of Predaceous Diving Beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae)

    Edited by Donald A. Yee ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The 2nd edition of this comprehensive book provides one of the most complete overviews of the aquatic beetles in the family Dytiscidae, also known as predaceous diving beetles. Dytiscids constitute one of the largest families of freshwater insects with approximately 4,650 named species that come in a variety of sizes, colors, and habitat affinities. Although dytiscid adults and larvae are ... Read more

    $224.09 USD

  • The Biology of Hover Wasps

    by Stefano Turillazzi ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book represents the culmination of the author’s lifetime work on a single fascinating group of insects, the hover wasps, Stenogastrinae. The author explores the biology of these little-known wasps at the threshold of sociality, presenting an ambitious survey of ideas about their evolution and an assessment of the current standing of controversial concepts.Following taxonomic and morphological ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Avian Ancestors

    A Review of the Phylogenetic Relationships of the Theropods Unenlagiidae, Microraptoria, Anchiornis and Scansoriopterygidae

    by Federico Agnolin, Fernando E. Novas ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Although consensus exists among researchers that birds evolved from coelurosaurian theropods, paleontologists still debate the identification of the group of coelurosaurians that most closely approaches the common ancestor of birds. The last 20 years witnessed the discovery of a wide array of avian-like theropods that has considerably amplified the anatomical disparity among deinonychosaurians, ... Read more

    $49.49 USD