The Leafcutter Ants: Civilization by Instinct (eBook)

Bert Hölldobler, Edward O. Wilson (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2010
192 Seiten
W. W. Norton & Company (Verlag)
978-0-393-34087-7 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.11.2010
• Zusatzinfo: Four-color throughout, 56 photographs
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Genetik / Molekularbiologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
• ISBN-10: 0-393-34087-2 / 0393340872
• ISBN-13: 978-0-393-34087-7 / 9780393340877