Borror and Delong's Introduction to the Study of Insects, 7th edition, C.A. Triplehorn & N.F. Johnson : book review

This book is explicitly a teaching text, and has to be evaluated in those terms. There are essentially two extremes to structuring biological curricula: a taxonomic or phylogenetic approach that is interested in the organisms themselves, and a functional approach that uses the organisms as models to illustrate general biological principles.