Charles Lyell: Principles of Geology. Charles Darwin read, and was much influenced by, Lyell's Principles of Geology while aboard HMS Beagle. This frontispiece image illustrates the main point of the book: that evidence of the forces of geological change that have been shaping Earth for millennia is observable today.
Insects have jointed legs, segmented bodies and exoskeletons.
Insects are most documented and recognized species on earth. They are also the most diverse group of organism. There are around 900 thousand of insects living on Earth, it is almost eighty percent of all the known species.
