The superorganism: the beauty, elegance, and strangeness of insect societies

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 comm...

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Hauptverfasser: Hölldobler, Bert 1936- (VerfasserIn), Wilson, Edward O. 1929-2021 (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York [u.a.] Norton 2009
Ausgabe:1. ed.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:Incl. bibliogr. references and index
Beschreibung:XXI, 522 S. zahlr. Ill., graph. Darst.
ISBN:9780393067040