The Leafcutter Ants: Civilization by Instinct by Hölldobler, Bert

The Leafcutter Ants: Civilization by Instinct

The Leafcutter Ants is the most detailed and authoritative description of any ant species ever produced. With...
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Author: Bert Hölldobler
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Language: English
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The Leafcutter Ants: Civilization by Instinct by Hölldobler, Bert

The Leafcutter Ants: Civilization by Instinct

CHF 26.46

The Leafcutter Ants: Civilization by Instinct

CHF 26.46
Author: Bert Hölldobler
Format: Paperback
Language: English
The Leafcutter Ants is the most detailed and authoritative description of any ant species ever produced. With a text suitable for both a lay and a scientific audience, the book provides an unforgettable tour of Earth's most evolved animal societies. Each colony of leafcutters contains as many as five million workers, all the daughters of a single queen that can live over a decade. A gigantic nest can stretch thirty feet across, rise five feet or more above the ground, and consist of hundreds of chambers that reach twenty-five feet below the ground surface. Indeed, the leafcutters have parlayed their instinctive civilization into a virtual domination of forest, grassland, and cropland--from Louisiana to Patagonia. Inspired by a section of the authors' acclaimed The Superorganism, this brilliantly illustrated work provides the ultimate explanation of what a social order with a half-billion years of animal evolution has achieved.

Author: Bert Hölldobler, Edward O. Wilson
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 11/15/2010
Pages: 192
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 8.30h x 6.30w x 0.49d
ISBN: 9780393338683


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 10/15/2010 pg. 8
Choice 08/01/2011
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2011 pg. 268

About the Author
Hölldobler, Bert: - Bert Hölldobler is Foundation Professor at Arizona State University and the recipient of numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize and the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize. He lives in Arizona and Germany.Wilson, Edward O.: - Edward O. Wilson is the author of more than thirty books, including Anthill, Letters to a Young Scientist, and The Conquest of Nature. The winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, Wilson is a professor emeritus at Harvard University and lives with his wife in Lexington, Massachusetts.

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