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Dance of the Dung Beetles: Their Role in a Changing World (Paperback or Softback
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- 9781776142347
- ISBN
- 1776142349
- Binding
- TP
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Book Title
- Dance of the Dung Beetles: Their Role in a Changin
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Dance of the Dung Beetles : Their Role in Our Changing World
- Item Length
- 9.8in
- Publisher
- Wit's University Press
- Item Width
- 5.9in
- Item Weight
- 16 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 266 Pages
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In this history of more than 3,000 years, beginning with Ancient Egypt, Marcus Byrne and Helen Lunn capture the diversity of dung beetles and their unique behaviour patterns. Outlining the development of science from the point of view of the humble dung beetle makes this charming story of immense interest to general readers and entomologists alike.
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Publisher
Wit's University Press
ISBN-10
1776142349
ISBN-13
9781776142347
eBay Product ID (ePID)
3038775493
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Dance of the Dung Beetles : Their Role in Our Changing World
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2019
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
266 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.8in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5.9in
Item Weight
16 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ql596.S3
Reviews
Ig Nobel Prize winner Marcus Byrne has a new book called Dance of the Dung Beetles. It can please and enlighten anyone--human or beetle or both (Beatle)--who ever has contact with with dance, dung, life, or the universe., "An entertaining and educational "tour" incorporating both Egyptian mythology and 17th-century scientific discovery... though geared for an audience already enthusiastic about entomology and its role in the history of natural science, casual readers will also find much of interest. A collection of diverse images adds value to the text, as does the detailed notes section, providing sources for each chapter.", This book will leave you with a deeper appreciation of nature and of our relationship to other living creatures. It will forever leave an image in your mind of a little beetle with a peaked cap glued onto its shiny, earless head unable to see the sun and thus meandering pointlessly with their dung balls., Dung beetles -- which fascinated Charles Darwin -- were once divine symbols. In ancient Egypt, Khepri (god of the rising Sun) had a scarab-beetle head because the insect 'danced' balls of dung across the Earth, just as the Sun moved across the sky. The beetle is thought later to have metamorphosed into zodiac sign Cancer, the crab. Now, thanks to experiments by entomologists such as Marcus Byrne, we know that dung beetles can navigate by the Milky Way. His collaboration with writer Helen Lunn, eye-catchingly illustrated, is a captivating compound of science, history and myth., Marcus Byrne and Helen Lunn recount the history of these much storied and increasingly studied Coleopterans in their new Dance of the Dung Beetles. Delving back some 3,000 years and following their subjects up to the present day, this new book seems to be just the thing for entomologists, general naturalists, and curious general readers alike., This book will leave you with a deeper appreciation of nature and of our relationship to other living creatures. It will forever leave an image in your mind of a little beetle with a peaked cap glued onto its shiny, earless head ... unable to see the sun and thus meandering pointlessly with their dung balls.-Sandra Swart, Professor of History, University of Stellenbosch
Table of Content
Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter One When the dung beetle wore golden shoes Chapter Two Crawling out of the darkness Chapter Three Joining the dots Chapter Four Colonising insects Chapter Five Of elephants and dung beetles Chapter Six Tribes with human attributes Chapter Seven Design construction first Conclusion: 'What a wonderful world' Appendices Select bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2019
Topic
Animals / Insects & Spiders, Life Sciences / Zoology / Entomology
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Nature, Science
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