Bert Hölldobler

The Superorganism

The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies

Buch

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 demo… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Wilson, Edward O.

ISBN: 978-0-393-06704-0
EAN: 9780393067040
Produktnummer: 3882270
Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Seitenangabe: 522 S.
Masse: H25.7 cm x B21.0 cm x D4.2 cm 1'622 g
Abbildungen: 110 4/c, 100 b/w illustrations
Gewicht: 1622

Über den Autor

Bert Hölldobler 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.