Insects - Successful Models of Evolution: Fascinating and Threatened
暫譯: 昆蟲 - 成功的進化模型：迷人且受威脅的物種

Gnatzy, Werner, Tautz, Jürgen

Insects - Successful Models of Evolution: Fascinating and Threatened
  • 出版商: Springer
  • 出版日期: 2025-05-17
  • 售價: $1,550
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  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 230
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 3662710285
  • ISBN-13: 9783662710289
  • 相關分類: 生物資訊 Bioinformatics

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In the course of evolution, insects have developed an almost unbelievable variety of shapes and functional sophistication. The design of their exoskeleton is so imaginative and unusual, often even bizarre, that one can only marvel. The fact that insects can find design solutions for any problem, no matter how special, makes them extremely successful. They have thus become crucial links in the complex networks of nature. Impressive macro photographs and informative scanning electron-optical images provide an insight into the wealth of forms, beauty and function of the six-legged creatures. Fascinating texts accompany the pictures and explain, among other things, how the great diving beetle uses vertebrate hormones as knock-out drops when attacked by fish, the pine moth beetle locates distant forest fires, the bombardier beetle emits pulsed explosions with its firing apparatus or the blue butterfly caterpillar glamours ants. Insects play a crucial role in the ecosystems of our planet. Man-made environmental destruction is interfering with these cycles in a sensitive way. This endangers the survival of insects, with dramatic consequences for us humans as well..

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在進化過程中，昆蟲發展出幾乎令人難以置信的形狀和功能複雜性。它們的外骨骼設計既富有想像力又獨特，常常甚至顯得奇異，讓人不禁驚嘆。昆蟲能夠為任何問題找到設計解決方案，無論多麼特殊，這使得它們極為成功。因此，它們成為自然複雜網絡中的關鍵環節。令人印象深刻的宏觀照片和資訊豐富的掃描電子光學圖像提供了對這些六足生物形態、之美和功能的深入了解。迷人的文字伴隨著圖片，解釋了例如大潛水甲蟲如何在被魚攻擊時使用脊椎動物荷爾蒙作為麻醉劑、松樹蛾甲蟲如何定位遠處的森林火災、轟炸甲蟲如何利用其發射裝置發出脈衝爆炸，或藍色蝴蝶幼蟲如何吸引螞蟻等內容。昆蟲在我們星球的生態系統中扮演著至關重要的角色。人為的環境破壞以敏感的方式干擾了這些循環，這危及了昆蟲的生存，對我們人類也帶來了戲劇性的後果。

作者簡介

Werner Gnatzy 1961-1966 Studied biology, chemistry and sport for the higher teaching profession at grammar schools at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. First state examination in 1966, doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) in 1970, habilitation in 1975, also in Mainz, in zoology with functional morphological studies on insect species. From 1975 to 2006 professor at the Zoological Institute of the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. Since 2006 lectures at the U3L.

Jürgen Tautz is one of Germany's leading bee researchers, a retired professor at the Biocentre of the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg and the author of numerous books, including the bestseller The Buzz about Bees and Communication Between Honeybees. His writing and popular lectures have twice been honoured by the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) who included him among the best scientists in Europe in communicating science to the public. Furthermore, he received the prestigious Communicator Award of the German Research Foundation. As gifted communicator and leading scientist, Juergen Tautz has much in common with Carl Sagan, Richard P Feynman, Konrad Lorenz, Vince Dethier and others famous for their work in popularizing science and making it accessible to all.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

維爾納·格納齊 1961-1966年在美因茲的約翰·古騰堡大學學習生物學、化學和體育，以獲得高級中學的教學職業資格。1966年取得第一次國家考試，1970年獲得博士學位（Dr. rer. nat.），1975年在美因茲獲得動物學的資格認證，並進行了有關昆蟲物種的功能形態學研究。1975年至2006年擔任法蘭克福歌德大學動物學研究所的教授。自2006年以來在U3L講課。

尤爾根·陶茨是德國領先的蜜蜂研究專家，曾任維爾茨堡尤利烏斯·馬克西米利安大學生物中心的退休教授，也是多本書籍的作者，包括暢銷書《蜜蜂的嗡嗡聲》（The Buzz about Bees）和《蜜蜂之間的溝通》（Communication Between Honeybees）。他的著作和受歡迎的講座兩次獲得歐洲分子生物學組織（EMBO）的表彰，該組織將他列為在科學傳播方面的最佳科學家之一。此外，他還獲得德國研究基金會的著名傳播者獎。作為一位出色的傳播者和領先的科學家，尤爾根·陶茨與卡爾·薩根、理查德·P·費曼、孔拉德·洛倫茨、文斯·德提爾等在科學普及和使其對所有人可及方面的工作上有著許多共同之處。

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