China News Service, Beijing, April 6 (Reporter Ying Ni) Dinosaurs and insects, who is the winner in the evolution of life?
Perhaps readers will have the answer after reading "Insect Planet" and "Dinosaur Empire".
The "Evolutionary History of Manga Life" series were written by Kim Du-yun, a new and up-and-coming popular science cartoonist and insect expert in South Korea.
He is an avid insect lover and a typical "slash youth".
In March 2018, he serialized "Comic Insect Evolution" on the Korean DDANZI Daily and the Internet. Soon this comic became popular in South Korea. Up to now, the number of views has exceeded 11 million.
The simplified Chinese version of the "Evolutionary History of Manga Life" series of books-"Insect Planet" and "Dinosaur Empire", which will be launched at the end of April, is from his hand.
The two books "Dinosaur Empire" and "Insect Planet" are based on informative and conclusive biological historical facts, supplemented by nearly 2000 comics, to return to the world of dinosaurs and insects with readers, revealing how the two big families of dinosaurs and insects go from simple to complex , From the scarcity of species to the prosperity of the population, from the supporting role to the protagonist.
At the same time, the book also introduces the latest research results of many dinosaurs and insect experts, and discusses many controversial topics about dinosaurs and insects with readers, covering many fields such as paleontology, zoology, genetics, ecology, etc. It can be called dinosaurs and insects. A feast of knowledge about insects.
In addition, in order to ensure the scientificity and authority of this set of books, Jieli Press also invited experts such as Xing Lida, associate professor of China University of Geosciences, to review the "Dinosaur Empire", and invited Liu Ye, an insect expert from the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, to comment on the "Insects". "Planet" will be reviewed and checked.
This set of books is really full of dry goods, and it is a set of interesting, informative and personalized popular science books.
The dinosaurs and insects in the cartoons are endowed with human emotions, and the images are funny and cute, and they are lively and funny.
The author has a big brain, and cleverly integrates classic animation elements, popular elements, and creative elements into comics to make boring science knowledge lively and interesting.
"Doraemon", "Frozen", "Star Wars", "Ant-Man" and other anime or well-known film and television works, such as the eggs scattered in the book, easily resonate with young people.
The book also introduces the popular content such as the Nobel Prize for funny entomology and academic gossip. These diversified contents increase the affinity of this book with the public readers.
Regarding the difference between "Dinosaur Empire" and other similar books, the new paleontology popular science writer and Weibo @江氏小盗龙 blogger Jiang Hong summed it up with "the theme is a little bit comprehensive, the narrative is funny and funny": The details of dinosaurs, such as dinosaur bones, body temperature, body color, feathers, etc., and macro knowledge of the evolution of dinosaurs from the Triassic period to the Cenozoic era; interpreting dinosaur knowledge through funny comic elements is far more vivid and more vivid than just conveying it in words. The image is also easier for people to understand and remember.
In the opinion of Liu Ye, an insect expert from the Institute of Entomology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a reviewer of "Insect Planet", the book is very suitable for eight or nine-year-old children to read as an introduction to insects, because there are many pictures in the book, and you can understand it by reading the pictures. Central idea.
As for the older readers, they will definitely have more insights after reading, including the theory of biological evolution and the enlightenment that life evolution brings to mankind.
Regarding the question of whether dinosaurs or insects are the winners of evolution, the two experts reached a consensus: insects win.
They said that as two creatures that coexist for a long time, they have a very close relationship. Both coexist and prosper, and they are both evolutionary winners. If they have to name one, it is insects.
"Although most of the dinosaurs are extinct, there are nearly 10,000 species of birds in their descendants, more than mammals. Now the insects on the earth evolved in the Cretaceous, and the types of insects And the number is incomparable to any type of creature on the earth, so on the whole, insects are considered a big winner." (End)