The Leafcutter Ants: Civilization by Instinct - Brossura

Holldobler, Bert; Wilson, Edward O.

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ISBN 10: 0393338681 ISBN 13: 9780393338683

Casa editrice: W W Norton & Co Inc, 2010

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The Leafcutter Ants is the most detailed and authoritative description of any ant species ever produced. With a text suitable for both a lay and a scientific audience, the book provides an unforgettable tour of Earth's most evolved animal societies. Each colony of leafcutters contains as many as five million workers, all the daughters of a single queen that can live over a decade. A gigantic nest can stretch thirty feet across, rise five feet or more above the ground, and consist of hundreds of chambers that reach twenty-five feet below the ground surface. Indeed, the leafcutters have parlayed their instinctive civilization into a virtual domination of forest, grassland, and cropland—from Louisiana to Patagonia. Inspired by a section of the authors' acclaimed The Superorganism, this brilliantly illustrated work provides the ultimate explanation of what a social order with a half-billion years of animal evolution has achieved.

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• Editore: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0393338681
• ISBN 13: 9780393338683
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 160