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Seks Na Sześciu Nogach. Kto Bzyka W Trawie (2000)

by Marlene Zuk(Favorite Author)

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review 1: This book is obviously not for entomologists, but for anyone who knows little about insect behaviour or who wants a good intro to evolutionary behaviour this is an excellent book. The author writes in a very easily understood manner so anyone could read it and covers a wide array of species and behaviors throughout the book. AND you don't have to worry about getting the usual dose of evo psych sexist anthropomorphism; the author nicely addresses what is wrong about this.For someone with a bit of a bio or psych background, it's a quick and easy read.
review 2: Fantastic. Every other evolved human will benefit from knowing and understanding how insects do it. There are a number of approaches the author Marlene Zuk takes to give the reader a nuanced view of the of... moreten idiosyncratic behaviours observed of different types of insects, the beetles, the ants, the bees, the flies, the mosquitoes, the crickets, and all six-legged bugs. That includes what makes a bug a bug, which is what makes their mouth parts bug mouth parts. The sexual and reproductive adaptations are breathtaking, also to include certain forms of killings of sexual partners, siblings, progeny, other insects, and the like. Overall, the book is a good update on the entomology research state-of-the-art, and it points to places of interest for further research. While reading the book, I only bring to it some childhood memories of watching ant hordes, bees and wasps, caterpillars, flies and beetles, of which there are a great variety in the tropics. The book seeks also to challenge how humans relate to the insect world, and how it is not as easily possible to "anthropomorphise" insect species as having capacities for memory, face recognition, language and communication, and motives and purposes as can be readily available to us by our almost automatic empathy with fellow vertebrates, as opposed to things enveloped in crunchy exoskeleton. There are many memorable accounts of research and direct experience with insects which the author relates, and in this she succeeds in placing touchstones in our reading to allow us to recall and to enrich our understanding while pouring over the book the truly interesting bits of insect life, and thus afterwards as we let this open vista settle into our own awareness of being also nature, and participating in all of it ourselves. Some of us, anyway. less

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