Caste and Ecology in the Social Insects. (Mpb-12), Volume 12
In this pathbreaking and far-reaching work George Oster and Edward Wilson provide the first fully developed theory of caste evolution among the social insects. Furthermore, in studying the effects of natural selection in generally increasing the insects' ergonomic efficiency, they go beyond the concentration of previous researchers on the physiological mechanisms of the insects and turn our attention instead to the scale and efficiency of the insects' division of labor.Recognizing that the efficiency of the insect colony is based on a complex fitting of the division of labor to many simultaneous needs, including those imposed by the distribut…
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Weitere Autoren: Wilson, Edward O.
- ISBN: 978-0-691-02361-8
- EAN: 9780691023618
- Produktnummer: 1811004
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1979
- Seitenangabe: 372 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D2.1 cm 496 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 496
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