The Superorganism
Subtitle: The Beauty, Elegance, and the Strangeness of Insect Societies
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; W.W. Norton
Published: 2008
Language: eng
Number of pages: 522
ISBN-13: 9780393067040
Description: The Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of Ants present a lavishly detailed account of the extraordinary lives of social insects that draws on more than two decades of research and offers insight into how bees, termites, and other insect societies thrive in systems of altruistic cooperation, complex communication, and labor division.