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The Super-organism
Bert Holldobler
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Description for The Super-organism
Hardcover. The Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of The Ants render the extraordinary lives of the social insects in this visually spectacular volume. Num Pages: 544 pages, 110 color, 100 black-and-white. BIC Classification: PSVT7. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 264 x 216 x 38. Weight in Grams: 1652.
The Superorganism promises to be one of the most important scientific works published in this decade. Coming eighteen years after the publication of The Ants, this new volume expands our knowledge of the social insects (among them, ants, bees, wasps, and termites) and is based on remarkable research conducted mostly within the last two decades. These superorganisms-a tightly knit colony of individuals, formed by altruistic cooperation, complex communication, and division of labor-represent one of the basic stages of biological organization, midway between the organism and the entire species. The study of the superorganism, as the authors demonstrate, has led to ... Read more
The Superorganism promises to be one of the most important scientific works published in this decade. Coming eighteen years after the publication of The Ants, this new volume expands our knowledge of the social insects (among them, ants, bees, wasps, and termites) and is based on remarkable research conducted mostly within the last two decades. These superorganisms-a tightly knit colony of individuals, formed by altruistic cooperation, complex communication, and division of labor-represent one of the basic stages of biological organization, midway between the organism and the entire species. The study of the superorganism, as the authors demonstrate, has led to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
576
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
544
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393067040
SKU
V9780393067040
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About Bert Holldobler
Bert Holldobler 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. Edward O. Wilson is widely recognized as one of the world's preeminent biologists and naturalists. The author of more than twenty books, including The ... Read more
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