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 Evoution of insects by David Grimaldi
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 07-07-2006 15:28
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 Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
http://www.amazon...e&n=266239 Anyone knows this book? What you think about this book? |
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| Kahis |
Posted on 10-07-2006 00:10
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 Member Location: Helsinki, Finland Posts: 1999 Joined: 02.09.04 |
I'll give it five dead gnats out of five (*****). It is worth buying for the photographs along. It is richly illustrated and the quality of photos and figures is vey high. The text is also good. As it is (I guess) mostly targeted to students and biologists it does not shy away from using technical terms for clarity and brevity. Fortunately the author's have spent some time on a *good* introduction where the paleantological and entomological jargon used is clearly documented. As a bog book it is admirably up-to-date. I have noticed some very small mistakes in the diptera section - the only order I'm familiar enough to judge with any accuracy. They do not in any way lower the book's worth for its purpose. I think this is understandable as it must've been impossibly to circulate all text and all figures to group specialists for review and determination given a finite time for the preparation of the book. After all, we certainly cannot expect general entomologists to spot mistakes in the identification of phorid species. All in all, it is well worth the price. Kahis |
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| Robert Nash |
Posted on 11-07-2006 14:37
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Member Location: Ulster Museum, Belfast, Ireland Posts: 288 Joined: 11.11.05 |
10 page excerpt pdf http://assets.cambridge.org/052182/1495/excerpt/0521821495_excerpt.pdf gives some idea Robert |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 12-07-2006 20:34
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Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
thank you for both!  The book is really very good. It has just one cons.... it is expensive.  ( |
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