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Wilson richly illustrated and delightfully written, journey to the ants combines autobiography and scientific lore to convey the excitement and pleasure the study of ants can offer. Their passion for the realities of ant biology and ethology as complemented by the isolated scientific knowledge thereof makes every page alive. He even dropped the name of a leader in the industry without asking permission. Read the lives of ants by laurent keller available from rakuten kobo. The book is intended for specialist, but is readable by anyone with a basic background in natural history. 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 worlds leading myrmecologists, is a thoroughgoing survey of one of the largest and most diverse groups of animals on the pdf planet.
Journey to the ants is the indispensable and, as far as i know unparalleled book for myrmecophiles. Making up nearly 15% of the entire terrestrial animal biomass, ants are impressive not only in quantitative terms, they also fascinate by their highly organized and complex social system. The ants is the most comprehensive referance book available on the subject. Wilson is the author of more than thirty books, including anthill, a novel, and the meaning of human existence, a finalist for the national book award. While an individual ant is considered by many people to have no significance hence the phrase crush like an ant, the complex behavior of a society of ants is rather fascinating the socalled ant farm has long been popular among scientifically inclined young people. Please note that this table excludes many books which contain separate chapters related to ants. Journey to the ants a story of scientific exploration. Its extremely well written, but the language is generally geared towards entomologists. Journey to the ants combines autobiography and scientific lore to what study of ants can offer.
I had read wilsons and holldoblers popular account of ant societies. Wilson is the author of two pulitzer prizewinning books, on human nature 1978 and the ants 1990, with bert holldobler, as well as many other. Richly illustrated and delightfully written, journey to the ants combines autobiography and scientific lore to convey the excitement and pleasure the study of ants can offer. The ants bert holldobler, foundation professor of biology bert holldobler, edward o. Wilson, honorary curator in entomology and university research professor emeritus edward o wilson harvard university press, 1990 science 732 pages. While not necessarily brightly coloured or beautiful, ants display some remark. The winner of two pulitzer prizes, wilson is a professor emeritus at harvard universi. About a third of it is taken up by reference material that is probably only for the myrmecologists and entomologists, but the remainder should keep anyone.
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