Brief history of insects. Six -legged hosts of the planet. Khramov A.

“Any story, including the history of the development of life on Earth, is an intricate interweaving of causes and consequences. Remove one thing, and everything else will change beyond recognition ”-with these words and the famous example with a butterfly from the story of Ray Bradbury Paleoentomologist Alexander Khramov begins his amazing story about the six-legged hosts of the planet. We wave off flies and mosquitoes, fight with cockroaches, bypass the anthill side, what can we say about lice! Just if you hadn’t lice, a person would have remained hairy, like chimpanzees. And in general, in the absence of insects, the vertebrates would never go to land, since they would have nothing to eat there. Yes, there are many books about insects, but this first, which talks about them from the point of view of their formation and historical development.

Paleoentomology is not mathematics, a lot in this rapidly developing science is built on hypotheses and interpretations, but thanks to the emergence of new data and research methods, scientists can share exciting discoveries and guesses with us, adding the next fragments to the picture of the world. And the author does it enthusiastic and talented.