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Insect Lives: Stories of Mystery and Romance from a Hidden World Hardcover - 1999
by Erich Hoyt (Editor); Ted Schultz (Editor)
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Along with Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) was one of the architects of the theory of evolution by natural selection.
From the rear cover
A Wonderful Journey into the Insect World through Literature, Science, Art, and Popular Culture Aristotle on metamorphosis
- Alfred Russel Wallace on the rare butterflies of the Malay Archipelago
- Jean-Henri Fabre on the art of the dung beetle
- Dave Barry on naming the U.S. Official National Insect
- Charles Darwin on seagoing insects
- William Beebe on an army ant invasion
- Kevin Kelly on bee?and human?swarming
- Jonathan Schell on postnuclear insect survival
- Gary Larson on when insects take over
- May Berenbaum on maggots and murderers
- Henry David Thoreau on race wars among the ants
- Thomas Eisner on stealth bugs
- David George Gordon on appreciating the lowly cockroach
- Maurice Maeterlinck on the queen-bee's wedding
- Edward O. Wilson on insect societies
?plus many other essays, illustrations, cartoons, screenplays, poems, recipes, tales, and observations on insect life.
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- Title Insect Lives: Stories of Mystery and Romance from a Hidden World
- Author Erich Hoyt (Editor); Ted Schultz (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 368
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Wiley, New York
- Date 1999-10-18
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780471282778 / 0471282774
- Weight 1.47 lbs (0.67 kg)
- Dimensions 9.25 x 6.28 x 1.19 in (23.50 x 15.95 x 3.02 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Insects
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99024788
- Dewey Decimal Code 595.7
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- Booklist, 10/15/1999, Page 401
- Library Journal, 10/15/1999, Page 102
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