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Do you know the people responsible for the sneezing of 30% of the world's population? Did you know that the writing revolution in the West was made possible by wasps with lots of guts? Have you heard of a living fossil with several Guinness World Records? And of any animal that has won Nobel prizes? How to travel the world by bucket? Will the Apocalypse come at the hand of an insect rather than another agent? This book is a colossal work that has brought together a score of professionals and popularizers of entomology and other disciplines to dimension the great role of such small beings in the evolution of our planet. Distilling the scientific message with conviction, with the passion and the tact of one who deciphers an enigma and longs to announce it to the whole world, experts and researchers from various fields of study have come together to talk about the most unknown and hallucinating face of bees, mites, artemia, horseshoe crabs, cockroaches, coprophagous beetles, ants, dragonflies and other taxa whose existence, sometimes almost unnoticed, has marked and will mark life on Earth. Join us on this adventure through land, sea and air in search of the most curious animals of our nature and rediscover, with them, our memory as a species.
