The Ants

by Holldobler, Bert; Wilson, Edward O.

• ISBN13: 9780674040755
• ISBN10: 0674040759
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1990-03-28
• Publisher: Belknap Pr

Summary

View a collection of videos on Professor Wilson entitled "On the Relation of Science and the Humanities"This landmark work, the distillation of a lifetime of research by the world's leading myrmecologists, is a thoroughgoing survey of one of the largest and most diverse groups of animals on the planet. Houml;lldobler and Wilson review in exhaustive detail virtually all topics in the anatomy, physiology, social organization, ecology, and natural history of the ants. In large format, with almost a thousand line drawings, photographs, and paintings, it is one of the most visually rich and all-encompassing views of any group of organisms on earth. It will be welcomed both as an introduction to the subject and as an encyclopedia reference for researchers in entomology, ecology, and sociobiology.

Table of Contents

Classification and origins

The colony life cycle

Altruism and the origin of the worker caste

Colony odor and kin recognition

Queen numbers and domination

Communication

Caste and division of labor

Social homeostasis and flexibility

Foraging and territorial strategies

The organization of species communities

Symbioses among ant species

Symbioses with other animals

Interaction with plants

The specialized predators

The army ants

The fungus growers

The harvesters

The weaver ants

Collecting and culturing ants

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

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