The Superorganism

Name: The Superorganism
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The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies

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The Pulitzer Prize – winning authors of The Ants render the extraordinary lives of the social insects in this visually spectacular volume. The Superorganism promises to be one of the most important scientific works published in this decade. Coming 18 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. 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 has led to important advances in our understanding of how the transitions between such levels have occurred in evolution, and how life as a whole has progressed from simple to complex forms.

Author Biography:

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. Edward O. Wilson (1929-2021) was the author of more than thirty books, including Anthill, Letters to a Young Scientist, and The Conquest of Nature. The winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, Wilson was a professor emeritus at Harvard University and lived with his wife in Lexington, Massachusetts.

Release date NZ

January 16th, 2009

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Undergraduate

Illustrations

110 color, 100 black-and-white

Pages

544

Dimensions

213x262x38

ISBN-13

9780393067040

Product ID

2747675

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