The Leafcutter Ants: Civilization by Instinct

Hölldobler, Bert; Wilson, Edward O.

ISBN 10: 0393338681 / ISBN 13: 9780393338683

Editore: W. W. Norton & Company, 2010

Cover/Case has some rubbing and edgewear. Access codes, CDs, slipcovers and other accessories may not be included. Codice articolo 2Y6RVS0029NT_ns

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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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Titolo: The Leafcutter Ants: Civilization by Instinct
Casa editrice: W. W. Norton & Company
Data di pubblicazione: 2010
Legatura: Brossura
Condizione: Good