Ants

Name: Ants
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ISBN: 9780674040755

ISBN-10: 0674040759

ISBN-13: 9780674040755

Edition: 1994

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

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This landmark work, the distillation of a lifetime of research by the world's leading myrmecologists, is a thoroughgoing survey of one of the largest and most diverse groups of animals on the planet. Houml;lldobler and Wilson review in exhaustive detail virtually all topics in the anatomy, physiology, social organization, ecology, and natural history of the ants. In large format, with almost a thousand line drawings, photographs, and painting, it is one of the most visually rich and all-encompassing view of any group of organisms on earth. It will be welcomed both as an introduction to the subject and as an encyclopedia reference for researchers in entomology, ecology, and sociobiology.

Book details

List price: $161.50
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/28/1990
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 752
Size: 10.00" wide x 12.00" long x 1.80" tall
Weight: 7.480
Language: English

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.



Classification and origins


The colony life cycle


Altruism and the origin of the worker caste


Colony odor and kin recognition


Queen numbers and domination


Communication


Caste and division of labor


Social homeostasis and flexibility


Foraging and territorial strategies


The organization of species communities


Symbioses among ant species


Symbioses with other animals


Interaction with plants


The specialized predators


The army ants


The fungus growers


The harvesters


The weaver ants


Collecting and culturing ants


Glossary


Bibliography


Index