图书标签: Entomology 虫 生物 life
发表于2024-11-05
For Love of Insects pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024
Imagine beetles ejecting defensive sprays as hot as boiling water; female moths holding their mates for ransom; caterpillars disguising themselves as flowers by fastening petals to their bodies; termites emitting a viscous glue to rally fellow soldiers--and you will have entered an insect world once beyond imagining, a world observed and described down to its tiniest astonishing detail by Thomas Eisner. The story of a lifetime of such minute explorations, For Love of Insects celebrates the small creatures that have emerged triumphant on the planet, the beneficiaries of extraordinary evolutionary inventiveness and unparalleled reproductive capacity. </p>
To understand the success of insects is to appreciate our own shortcomings, Eisner tells us, but never has a reckoning been such a pleasure. Recounting exploits and discoveries in his lab at Cornell and in the field in Uruguay, Australia, Panama, Europe, and North America, Eisner time and again demonstrates how inquiry into the survival strategies of an insect leads to clarifications beyond the expected; insects are revealed as masters of achievement, forms of life worthy of study and respect from even the most recalcitrant entomophobe. Filled with descriptions of his ingenious experiments and illustrated with photographs unmatched for their combination of scientific content and delicate beauty, Eisner's book makes readers participants in the grand adventure of discovery on a scale infinitesimally small, and infinitely surprising. </p>
相当好的化学生态学科普著作,算得上是化学生态学领域科普读物的旗舰。原作者是康奈尔大学国际化学生态学领域的大牛,几乎所有内容都来源于其发表在国际顶级学术刊物上的文章。文笔流畅,饶有趣味。 由国内知名的昆虫学专家翻译,昆虫学名和化合物名称都比较准确!印刷方面也与...
评分这个假期逛书店一眼相中的,迫不及待的带回家读完,这本书相当贵,不过绝对值了XD~不管从哪个方面来说都是一本无可挑剔的好书,虞国跃(博士、研究员,研究瓢虫等鞘翅目昆虫分类及其利用,现任北京市农林科学院植物保护环境保护研究所所长,北京昆虫学会副理事长。)做译,配合...
评分这其实算是作者的一本自传。 Tomas将他的一生奉献给热爱的科研事业,他是一个非常幸运的人,能做自己喜欢的工作。除了看书,顺便也把他的论文也翻来看了看,很有启发。牛人啊,发的都是《Science》
评分沉甸甸的一本书,花了好几天才看完。看完书,我长出一口气,如果一本书就是一个世界,那这本书所展示的昆虫世界是多么神奇的一个世界? 兴趣转向昆虫后,我开始收昆虫类的书籍,对于图鉴类的书我兴趣不大,因为植物动物的分布很有地域性,很多书对于查名实在力不从心,再...
评分这个假期逛书店一眼相中的,迫不及待的带回家读完,这本书相当贵,不过绝对值了XD~不管从哪个方面来说都是一本无可挑剔的好书,虞国跃(博士、研究员,研究瓢虫等鞘翅目昆虫分类及其利用,现任北京市农林科学院植物保护环境保护研究所所长,北京昆虫学会副理事长。)做译,配合...
For Love of Insects pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024