History of Insects

• Main Authors: Belayeva, N. V. (Author), Blagoderov, V. A. (Author), Dmitriev, V. Yu (Author), Eskov, K. Yu (Author), Gorokhov, A. V. (Author), Ivanov, V. D. (Author), Kluge, N. Yu (Author), Kozlov, M. V. (Author), Lukashevich, E. D. (Author), Mostovski, M. B. (Author), Novokshonov, V. G. (Author), Ponomarenko, A. G. (Author), Popov, Yu. A. (Author), Pritykina, L. N. (Author), Rasnitsyn, A. P. (Author), Shcherbakov, D. E. (Author), Sinitshenkova, N. D. (Author), Storozhenko, S. Yu (Author), Sukatsheva, I. D. (Author), Vishniakova, V. N. (Author), Vršanský, Peter (Author), Zherikhin, V. V. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Rasnitsyn, Alexandr P. (Editor), Quicke, Donald L.J (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2002.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Paleontology.; Evolutionary biology.; Entomology.; Life Sciences.; Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography.; Evolutionary Biology.
• Physical Description: XII, 517 p. online resource.
• ISBN: 9780306475771

Insects are not dinosaurs – and they probably pose us more strange ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS puzzles and unexpected questions. A million extant species, that is sev- For A. P. Rasnitsyn, preparing of various parts of this book was s- eral times more than all other living taxa together, is still a very c- ported in part by grants: by the International Science Foundation, by servative estimate, and their real number is for sure many times more. the Leverhulme Trust to D. L. J. Quicke and M. G. Fitton; by the Royal They are incomparably diverse in terms of their size, structure and way Society Joint Project with the FSU to APR and E. A. Jarzembowski; by of life – and yet they are all small – by our standard at least – why? And ESF Project ‘Fossil Insects Network’; by RFFI grants 95-04-11105, they practically ignore the cradle of life, the sea – again, why? Of 98-04-48518; by the Smithsonian Institution and California Academy course, some survive and even reproduce in salt water, but nevertheless of Sciences; and by various help, including sharing unpublished very few of them are specialised for marine life.