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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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Main Author: HoĢˆlldobler, Bert, 1936-
Other Authors: Wilson, Edward O.
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton, c2009.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Insect societies.
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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.
Physical Description:xxi, 522 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780393067040 (hardcover)
0393067041 (hardcover)
Author Notes:He was born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1929. He is currently Pellegrino University Research Professor & Honorary Curator in Entomology of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard. He is on the Board of Directors of the Nature Conservancy, Conservation International & the American Museum of Natural History. He lives in Lexington, Massachusetts.

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