The Evolution of Insect Flight

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    The Evolution of Insect Flight Author: Format: Paperback / softback First Published: Published By: Oxford University Press
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    Pages: 244 Illustrations and other contents: halftones, numerous line figures Language: English ISBN: 9780198500896 Categories: , , , , , , ,

    The hardback edition of this was the first book on insect flight since J W S Pringle’s classic Insect Flight was published in 1957. Much has been written since on applied and ecological aspects of flight, but the question of the origin of wings and flight, their structural concomitants, and the related aerodynamical issues have been confined largely to armchair speculation in a scattered literature. This book is written by a leading authority on insect flight, and for the first time draws a coherent, empirically based picture of how insect flight may have evolved. Following excellent reviews the book is now being made available in paperback.

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    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