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| The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies | 
| Authors: Bert Holldobler, Edward O. Wilson
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Category: Book
List Price: $55.00
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Sales Rank: 2185
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 576
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.6
Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 8.1 x 1.6
ISBN: 0393067041
Dewey Decimal Number: 595.71782
EAN: 9780393067040
ASIN: 0393067041
Publication Date: November 10, 2008 (New: Last 30 Days)
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Product Description
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 knowledge of the social insects (among them, ants, bees, wasps, and termites) and is based on remarkable research conducted mostly within the last two decades. 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, as the authors demonstrate, 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. Ultimately, this book provides a deep look into a part of the living world hitherto glimpsed by only a very few. 110 color and 100 black-and-white illustrations.
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