The Art of the Bee
Shaping the Environment from Landscapes to Societies
The impact of bees on our world is immeasurable. Bees are responsible for the evolution of the vast array of brightly colored flowers and for engineering the niches of multitudes of plants, animals, and microbes. They've painted our landscapes with flowers through their pollination activities, and they have evolved the most complex societies to aid their exploitation of the environment.The parallels between human and insect societies have been explored by countless sociobiologists. Traditional texts present stratified layers of knowledge where the reader excavates levels of biological organization, each building on the last. In this book, Rob…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-750416-1
- EAN: 9780197504161
- Produktnummer: 34449395
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 7'663 KB
Über den Autor
Robert E. Page, Jr., Regents Professor Emeritus, Arizona State University and Professor Emeritus, University of California, Davis.Robert E. Page, Jr., is Regents Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University and Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Davis. He has published more than 230 research papers and articles and authored two other books, The Spirit of the Hive (Harvard University Press, 2013) and Queen Rearing and Bee Breeding, with Harry H. Laidlaw (Wicwas Press, 1997). In 2009, he was a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg of Berlin. In 2009, he was a Fellow of Wissenschaftskolleg of Berlin. Page is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Brazilian Academy of Science, Leopoldina (the German National Academyof Science), and the California Academy of Science. He is a recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award (Humboldt Prize, 1995), the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Fellowship (2018), James W. Creasman Award of Excellence at ASU (2018), and the Distinguished Emeritus Award at UCD (2019).
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