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9780674485266

Journey to the Ants

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  • ISBN13:

    9780674485266

  • ISBN10:

    0674485262

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1995-09-01
  • Publisher: Belknap Pr

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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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