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The Leafcutter Ants

The Leafcutter Ants

Civilization by Instinct

by Edward O. Wilson and Bert Hoelldobler
Paperback
Publication Date: 26/10/2010
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The Leafcutter Ants is the most detailed and authoritative description of any ant species ever produced. With a text suitable for both a lay and a scientific audience, the book provides an unforgettable tour of Earth's most evolved animal societies. Each colony of leafcutters contains as many as five million workers, all the daughters of a single queen that can live over a decade. A gigantic nest can stretch thirty feet across, rise five feet or more above the ground, and consist of hundreds of chambers that reach twenty-five feet below the ground surface. Indeed, the leafcutters have parlayed their instinctive civilization into a virtual domination of forest, grassland, and cropland-from Louisiana to Patagonia. Inspired by a section of the authors' acclaimed The Superorganism, this brilliantly illustrated work provides the ultimate explanation of what a social order with a half-billion years of animal evolution has achieved.
ISBN:
9780393338683
9780393338683
Category:
Insects (entomology)
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
26-10-2010
Language:
English
Publisher:
WW Norton & Co
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
192
Dimensions (mm):
211x157x13mm
Weight:
0.35kg
Edward O. Wilson

Edward O. Wilson is widely recognized as one of the world's pre-eminent biologists and naturalists. The author of more than twenty books, including Consilience, The Diversity of Life, The Social Conquest of Earth, The Meaning of Human Existence and Letters to a Young Scientist, Wilson is a Professor Emeritus at Harvard University. The winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, he lives in Lexington, Massachusetts.

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