The evolution of insect flight
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The evolution of insect flight
Oxford University Press, 1994
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"Oxford science publications" -- cover
"Translated by S. Scalon" -- pref.
Bibliography: p. [214]-222
Includes indexes
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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.
目次
- Introduction
- Part I Basic principles of insect flight
- Structure of the wing apparatus
- Mode of action of the wing apparatus
- The aerodynamics of insect flight
- Flight and behaviour
- Part II The evolution of insect flight
- The origins of flight and wings in insects
- Early forms of flight
- Flight based in hindwings
- From functionally four-winged to functionally two-winged flight
- Progress in insect flight
- Looking into the past: the process of evolution, and insect wing apparatus.
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