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The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies
The Superorganism The Beauty Elegance and Strangeness of Insect Societies
Author: Bert Holldobler, Edward O. Wilson
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 eighteen years after the publication of The Ants, this new volume expands our k...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780393067040
ISBN-10: 0393067041
Publication Date: 11/10/2008
Pages: 576
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Publisher: W. W. Norton
Book Type: Hardcover
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Some interesting tidbits in this one buried within a whole lot of boring. You really have to be a student of entomology to make it through this one--I couldn't. I did find the discussion of haplodiploidism very interesting; this was a new concept for me.
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