The superorganism

the beauty, elegance, and strangeness of insect societies

By Wilson, Edward Raymond & HÚºolldobler, Bert

Publishers Summary:
The Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of Ants present a lavishly detailed account of the extraordinary lives of social insects that draws on more than two decades of research and offers insight into how bees, termites, and other insect societies thrive in systems of altruistic cooperation, complex communication, and labor division.

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ISBN
978-0-39306-704-0
Publisher
New York : W.W. Norton, c2009.


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Library Journal

Reviewed on October 15, 2008

Ant lifestyles are amazingly diverse and include slave-makers, fungus-growers, and nomadic-predators. Most of our knowledge of their intricate navigation and communication systems was discovered only in the past four decades, and many of these discoveries were made, either separately or together, by two ant biology pioneers, H�lldobler and Wilson. Since their Pulitzer Prize-winning 1990 volume, The Ants, much has been learned ab...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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