Journey to the Ants A Story of Scientific Exploration

Name: Journey to the Ants A Story of Scientific Exploration
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ISBN: 9780674485266

ISBN-10: 0674485262

ISBN-13: 9780674485266

Edition: 1994

Authors: Bert Hï¿½lldobler, Edward O. Wilson, Bert Hï¿½lldobler

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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.

Book details

List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 7/21/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 8.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.826

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.



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