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A brilliant work of narrative history with an international cast of characters that captures this definitive period after the close of the Great War

Planet of the Bugs Physical & Chemical Oceanography A literary critic’s journey throughDinosaurs, however toothy, did not rule the earth and neither do humans. But what were and are the true potentates of our planet? Insects, says Scott Richard Shaw millions and millions of insect species. Starting in the shallow oceans of ancient Earth and ending in the far reaches of outer space where, Shaw proposes, insect like aliens may have achieved similar preeminence Planet of the Bugs spins a sweeping account of insects' evolution from humble