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>
發表於2024-09-10
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沉甸甸的一本書,花瞭好幾天纔看完。看完書,我長齣一口氣,如果一本書就是一個世界,那這本書所展示的昆蟲世界是多麼神奇的一個世界? 興趣轉嚮昆蟲後,我開始收昆蟲類的書籍,對於圖鑒類的書我興趣不大,因為植物動物的分布很有地域性,很多書對於查名實在力不從心,再...
評分沉甸甸的一本書,花瞭好幾天纔看完。看完書,我長齣一口氣,如果一本書就是一個世界,那這本書所展示的昆蟲世界是多麼神奇的一個世界? 興趣轉嚮昆蟲後,我開始收昆蟲類的書籍,對於圖鑒類的書我興趣不大,因為植物動物的分布很有地域性,很多書對於查名實在力不從心,再...
評分沉甸甸的一本書,花瞭好幾天纔看完。看完書,我長齣一口氣,如果一本書就是一個世界,那這本書所展示的昆蟲世界是多麼神奇的一個世界? 興趣轉嚮昆蟲後,我開始收昆蟲類的書籍,對於圖鑒類的書我興趣不大,因為植物動物的分布很有地域性,很多書對於查名實在力不從心,再...
評分這其實算是作者的一本自傳。 Tomas將他的一生奉獻給熱愛的科研事業,他是一個非常幸運的人,能做自己喜歡的工作。除瞭看書,順便也把他的論文也翻來看瞭看,很有啓發。牛人啊,發的都是《Science》
評分相當好的化學生態學科普著作,算得上是化學生態學領域科普讀物的旗艦。原作者是康奈爾大學國際化學生態學領域的大牛,幾乎所有內容都來源於其發錶在國際頂級學術刊物上的文章。文筆流暢,饒有趣味。 由國內知名的昆蟲學專傢翻譯,昆蟲學名和化閤物名稱都比較準確!印刷方麵也與...
圖書標籤: Entomology 蟲 生物 life
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