This text combines autobiography and scientific lore to convey the excitement and pleasure the study of ants can offer. The authors interweave their personal adventures with the social lives of ants, building, from the first minute observations of childhood, a remarkable account of these abundant insects' evolutionary achievement. Accompanying Hoelldobler and Wilson, we peer into the colony to see how ants co-operate and make war, how they reproduce and bury their dead, how they employ propaganda and surveillance and ...
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This text combines autobiography and scientific lore to convey the excitement and pleasure the study of ants can offer. The authors interweave their personal adventures with the social lives of ants, building, from the first minute observations of childhood, a remarkable account of these abundant insects' evolutionary achievement. Accompanying Hoelldobler and Wilson, we peer into the colony to see how ants co-operate and make war, how they reproduce and bury their dead, how they employ propaganda and surveillance and exhibit a startlingly familiar ambivalance between allegiance and self-aggrandizement. This tour of the entire range of formicid biodiversity - from social parasites to army ants, nomadic hunters, camouflaged huntresses, and builders of temperature-controlled skyscrapers - opens out increasingly into natural history, intimating the relevance of ant life to human existence. A window in the world of ants as well as those who study them, this book should be a source of knowledge and pleasure for anyone who has ever stopped to wonder about the miniature yet immense civilization at our feet.
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Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.
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Fine in Fine jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. This book is the second printing, third printing from 1994, 228 pages, illustrated in color and b&w. "This marvelous book, full of rich detail and bursting with biophilia. It's full of ant lore and ant facts, full of the diversity of the species, full of precision." FINE-SOFTCOVER.
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Very Good in Good jacket. Size: 9x8x1; Minor wear to binding. Light wear & foxing on edges of text block. Text and images unmarked. Price clipped dj shelf worn around edges with light foxing & small stains on inner side. Dust jacket in a mylar cover.
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Fine Condition in Fine jacket. Inscribed by Author. Inscribed by Wilson with his drawing of an ant. Uncommon signed. Dust Jacket is in fine condition without tears or chips or other damage. Dust Jack in mylar guard. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Science & Technology; Biology; Insects; Inscribed by Author. ISBN: 0674485254. ISBN/EAN: 9780674485259. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 21533.
