Buch, Englisch, 244 Seiten, Format (B × H): 187 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 531 g
Reihe: Oxford Science Publications
Buch, Englisch, 244 Seiten, Format (B × H): 187 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 531 g
Reihe: Oxford Science Publications
ISBN: 978-0-19-850089-6
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
This is the first book on this subject 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 consideration of the question of the origin of wings and flight has been largely confined to armchair speculation in a scattered literature. To make matters worse, much of the recent empirical work has only appeared in Russain.
A,K. Brodsky is a leading Russian authority on insect flight, a pioneer in the use of empirical aerodynamic techniques to unravel the mechanisms which underlie insect flight and hence its origins. By uniting fossil, structural, and phylogenetic information with his empirical studies, he draws a coherent, well-substantialed picture of the evolution of insect flight. The text is illustrated by numerous fine line drawings. The first book on insect flight since J.W.S. Pringle's classic Insect Flight was published in 1957 Written by leading Russian authority in the field - provides Western world with access to much previously unpublished material Draws togther the diverse strands of fossil evidence, structure, phylogeny, aerodynamics, and behaviour to form a coherent picture Beautifully illustrated with numerous fine line drawings
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Weitere Infos & Material
- Introduction
- Part I: Basic principles of insect flight
- 1: Structure of the wing apparatus
- 2: Mode of action of the wing apparatus
- 3: The aerodynamics of insect flight
- 4: Flight and behaviour
- Part II The evolution of insect flight
- 5: The origins of flight and wings in insects
- 6: Early forms of flight
- 7: Flight based in hindwings
- 8: From functionally four-winged to functionally two-winged flight
- 9: Progress in insect flight
- 10: Looking into the past: the process of evolution, and insect wing apparatus
- Postscriptum
- References
- Index
