Ants at Work: How an Insect Society is Organized - Softcover

Gordon, Deborah M.

 
9780393321326: Ants at Work: How an Insect Society is Organized
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0393321320 ISBN 13: 9780393321326
Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2000

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Individual ants manage their incredibly complex colonies with no one in charge--how do they do it? Ants have long been regarded as the most interesting of the social insects. With their queens and celibate workers, these intriguing creatures have captured the imaginations of scientists and children alike for generations. Yet until now, no one had studied intensely the life cycle of the ant colony as a whole. An ant colony has a life cycle of about fifteen years--it is born, matures, and dies. But the individual ants that inhabit the colony live only one year. So how does this system of tunnels and caves in the dirt become so much more than the sum of its parts? Leading ant researcher Deborah Gordon takes the reader to the Arizona desert to explore this question. The answer involves the emerging insights of the new science of complexity, and contributes to understanding the evolution of life itself.

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Deborah Gordon is associate professor of biology at Stanford University.

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Verlag
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0393321320
ISBN 13 
9780393321326
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Anzahl der Seiten
198
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