The spirit of the hive
Subtitle: the mechanisms of social evolution
By: Robert E. Page, Jr
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780674073029
Subjects: Pollen; Beehives; Evolution; Honeybee; Behavior
Description: "Charles Darwin struggled to explain how forty thousand bees working in the dark, seemingly by instinct alone, could organize themselves to construct something as perfect as a honey comb. How do bees accomplish such incredible tasks? Synthesizing the findings of decades of experiments, The Spirit of the Hive presents a comprehensive picture of the genetic and physiological mechanisms underlying the division of labor in honey bee colonies and explains how bees' complex social behavior has evolved over millions of years."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / by Bert Hölldobler; title: Darwin's Dilemma and the Spirit of the Hive; title: What Is the Spirit of the Hive?; title: Individual Variation in Behavior; title: The Evolution of Polyandry; title: The Phenotypic Architecture of Pollen Hoarding; title: The Genetic Architecture of Pollen Hoarding; title: Reproductive Regulation of Division of Labor; title: Developmental Regulation of Reproduction; title: The Regulatory Architecture of Pollen Hoarding; title: A Crowd of Bees.