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Chapter 1 - Insects and Humans on the Tree of Life
Introduction to Part I
Chapter 2 - The Breath of Life in Insects and Humans
Chapter 3 - Homeostasis
Chapter 4 - Growth and Development
Chapter 5 - Sensing and Responding to the Environment
Chapter 6 - Reproduction: Weird Mating Rituals
Introduction to Part II
Chapter 7 - Insects in Myth
Chapter 8 - The Lord God, Entomologist
Chapter 9 - Sound Production in Insects
Chapter 10 - Musica Insecta
Chapter 11 - Fear of Insects
Introduction to Part III
Chapter 12 - Evolution of Blood-Feeding Arthropods
Chapter 15 - Flee Wikkyd Heires
Chapter 16 - Effects of Plague on Art and Literature
Chapter 17 - Effects of Plague on Medieval Society
Chapter 14 - Columbus, Malaria and America
Introduction to Part IV
Chapter 19 - DDT: Miraculous Powder or Elixir of Death?
Chapter 22 - Insects in Ancient and Modern Medicine
Chapter 26 - Silk
Chapter 24 - Insects and the Germ Theory of Disease
Chapter 25 - How Insects Shaped Biology: Darwin, Mendel, Morgan and the Modern Synthesis
Chapter 23 - Entomophagy: You Eat What???
Chapter 27 - Pollination and Pollinators
“If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.”
– E. O. Wilson
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