The Ants by Bert Holldobler, Edward O. Wilson, Bert Hvlldobler

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Synopsis

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 painting, it is one of the most visually rich and all-encompassing view 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.

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Halldobler and Wilson (both Harvard U.), high-profile biologists (Wilson's On Human Nature won a Pulitzer Prize), review in detail the anatomy, physiology, social organization, ecology, and natural history of ants, illustrating the 292 living genera with nearly a thousand line drawings, photographs, and paintings. Flawed only by (presumably) Wilson's well-known propensity toward reductionism--condescending, even when directed at ants. 101/4x121/4". Acidic paper. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Biography

Bert Hölldobler is now Foundation Professor of Biology at Arizona State University; formerly Chair of Behavioral Physiology and Sociology at the Theodor Boveri Institute, University of Würzburg. He is also the recipient of the U.S. Senior Scientist Prize of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German government. Until 1990, he was the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology at Harvard University.

Edward O. Wilson is Pellegrino University Professor at Harvard University. In addition to two Pulitzer Prizes (one of which he shares with Bert Hölldobler), Wilson has won many scientific awards, including the National Medal of Science and the Crafoord Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.