The evolution of insect flight / Andrei K. Brodsky
- Bib ID:
- 1726772
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- Author:
- Brodsky, Andrei K
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- [1st ed.]
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- Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994
- xiv, 229 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0198500890
- 0198546815
- Series:
- Oxford science publications.
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- Machine derived contents note: 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.
- Notes:
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- Originally published: 1994.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [214]-222) and indexes.
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