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- catalog abstract "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 Russian. 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-substantiated picture of the evolution of insect flight. The text is illustrated by numerous fine line drawings.".
- catalog contributor b5615254.
- catalog created "1994.".
- catalog date "1994".
- catalog date "1994.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1994.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [214]-222) and index.".
- catalog description "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 Russian. 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-substantiated picture of the evolution of insect flight. The text is illustrated by numerous fine line drawings.".
- catalog description "pt. 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 -- pt. II. The evolution of insect flight. 5. The origins of flight and wings in insects. 6. Early forms of flight. 7. Flight based on hindwings. 8. From functionally four-winged flight to functionally two-winged flight. 9. Progress in insect flight. 10. Looking into the past: the process of evolution, and insect wing apparatus.".
- catalog extent "xiv, 229 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0198546815 :".
- catalog issued "1994".
- catalog issued "1994.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog subject "595.7/01852 20".
- catalog subject "Insects Evolution.".
- catalog subject "Insects Flight.".
- catalog subject "QL496.7 .B76 1994".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. 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 -- pt. II. The evolution of insect flight. 5. The origins of flight and wings in insects. 6. Early forms of flight. 7. Flight based on hindwings. 8. From functionally four-winged flight to functionally two-winged flight. 9. Progress in insect flight. 10. Looking into the past: the process of evolution, and insect wing apparatus.".
- catalog title "The evolution of insect flight / Andrei K. Brodsky.".
- catalog type "text".