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View a collection of videos on Professor Wilson entitled "On the Relation of Science and the Humanities"This landmark work, the distillation of a lifetime of research by the world's leading myrmecologists, is a thoroughgoing survey of one of the largest and most diverse groups of animals on the planet. Hölldobler and Wilson review in exhaustive detail virtually all topics in the anatomy, physiology, social organization, ecology, and natural history of the ants. In large format, with almost a thousand line drawings, photographs, and paintings, it is one of the most visually rich and all-encompassing views of any group of organisms on earth. It will be welcomed both as an introduction to the subject and as an encyclopedia reference for researchers in entomology, ecology, and sociobiology. Science Hölldobler and Wilson's mighty tome will surely take its place among the greatest of all entomology books...it will inspire many new gereations of students with its blend of scholarship, enthusiasm, and unabashed delight.
1. The Importance of Ants2. Classification and Origins3. The Colony Life Cycle4. Altruism and the Origin of the Worker Caste5. Colony Odor and Kin Recognition6. Queen Numbers and Domination7. Communication8. Caste and Division of Labor9. Social Homeostasis and Flexibility10. Foraging Strategies, Territory, and Population Regulation11. The Organization of Species Communities12. Symbioses among Ant Species13. Symbioses with Other Arthropods14. Symbioses between Ants and Plants15. The Specialized Predators16.The Army Ants17. The Fungus Growers18. The Harvesting Ants19. Weaver Ants20. Collecting, Culturing, ObservingGlossaryBibliographyAcknowledgmentsIndex
