Journey to the Ants
Subtitle: A Story of Scientific Exploration
Publisher: Belknap Press
Published: August 5, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780674485259
Subjects: Insects (entomology); Research; Insects & Spiders; Entomology; Science/Mathematics; Science; Nature; Nature / Field Guide Books; Life Sciences - Biology - General; Life Sciences - Zoology - Entomology; Science / Biology; Ants; Wilson, Edward O; 1936-; Holldobler, Bert,; Insect societies
First sentence: OUR PASSION IS ANTS, and our scientific discipline is myrmecology.
Table of contents: title: ix
label: Preface; title: 1
label: The Dominance of Ants; title: 13
label: For the Love of Ants; title: 29
label: The Life and Death of the Colony; title: 41
label: How Ants Communicate; title: 59
label: War and Foreign Policy; title: 75
label: The Ur-Ants; title: 85
label: Conflict and Dominance; title: 95
label: The Origin of Cooperation; title: 107
label: The Superorganism; title: 123
label: Social Parasites: Breaking the Code; title: 143
label: The Trophobionts; title: 157
label: Army Ants; title: 175
label: The Strangest Ants; title: 191
label: How Ants Control Their Environment; title: 205
label: Epilogue: Who Will Survive?; title: 209
label: How to Study Ants; title: 225
label: Acknowledgments; title: 227
label: Index