Insect Evolution in an Amberiferous and Stone Alphabet ― Proceedings of the 6th International Congress on Fossil Insects, Arthropods and Amber

As with the previous congresses on Fossil Insects, Arthropods and Amber, the sixth one was held in a country with notable Cretaceous amber sites. In a valuable integration of data from the fossil record and molecular phylogeny, contributors discuss the latest techniques for the identification of new insects found in amber from different periods in sites around the world. The editors' affiliations are as follows: Azar (natural sciences, Lebanese U.); Engel (ecology and evolutionary biology, U. of Kansas, Lawrence); Jarzembowksi (Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleoontology, China); Krogmann (entomology, State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, Germany); Nel (entomology, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris); and Santiago-Blay (paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian, US). The book includes many color and b&w illustrations. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Dany Azar, PhD (2000), University of Paris XI- Orsay- France, is Professor - Research Director - Senior Curator, Lebanese University and Natural History Musem of the same University. He is a world authority in amber, paleoentomology and insects evolution, with over 180 publications. He received recentlty the Excellence Award of the Lebanese National Council of Scientific Research for his outstanding researches on fossil insects and their evolution. Michael S. Engel, PhD (1998) is Professor-Senior Curator, University of Kansas, and Research Associate, American Museum of Natural History. He is an authority on insect biology, systematics, and paleontology, with over 450 publications, and co-author of Evolution of the Insects (2005, Cambridge University Press).Edmund Jarzembowski, PhD. is Professor at the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences; China. He is a world authority on paleoenvironment and paleoentomology, he published many books and articles. Andre Nel, PhD. Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, is Professor-Senior Curator at the same institute. He is a world authority on fossil insects, evolution, systematics and paleontology, with over 500 publications. Lars Krogmann, PhD (2005), is research entomologist and head of the Hymenoptera Section at the State Museum of Natural History in Stuttgart. His research interests cover all aspects of hymenopteran systematics. Previously, he has been awarded a PostDoc fellowship from the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt foundation and was appointed at the University of Adelaide (South Australia). Lars Krogmann is the editor-in-chief of the international journal Insect Systematics & Evolution.Jorge A. Santiago-Blay, PhD (1990), University of California, Berkeley is a Research Associate at the NMNH. He researches arthropods and plants, serves as Editor-in-Chief of Life: The Excitement of Biology and Terrestrial Arthropod Reviews, and teaches at several American universities.