Journey to the Ants
by Holldobler, BertEdition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1995-09-01
Publisher(s): Belknap Pr
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Summary
View a collection of videos on Professor Wilson entitled "On the Relation of Science and the Humanities"Richly illustrated and delightfully written, Journey to the Ants combines autobiography and scientific lore to convey the excitement and pleasure the study of ants can offer. Bert Houml;lldobler and E. O. Wilson interweave their personal adventures with the social lives of ants, building, from the first minute observations of childhood, a remarkable account of these abundant insects' evolutionary achievement.
Table of Contents
| Preface | |
| The Dominance of Ants | |
| For the Love of Ants | |
| The Life and Death of the Colony | |
| How Ants Communicate | |
| War and Foreign Policy | |
| The Ur-Ants | |
| Conflict and Dominance | |
| The Origin of Cooperation | |
| The Superorganism | |
| Social Parasites: Breaking the Code | |
| The Trophobionts | |
| Army Ants | |
| The Strangest Ants | |
| How Ants Control Their Environment Epilogue: Who Will Survive? How to Study Ants | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Index | |
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