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Title: INSECT SOCIETIES
By: Edward O. Wilson
Format: Hardback

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ISBN 10: 0674454901
ISBN 13: 9780674454903
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Publisher: HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pages: 562
Description: A major work of environmental and behavioral biology, this book reinterprets the classification, evolution, anatomy, physiology, and behavior of the higher social insects--ants, social wasps and bees, and termites--through the concepts of modern biology, from biochemistry to evolutionary theory and population ecology.
Synopsis: View a collection of videos on Professor Wilson entitled "On the Relation of Science and the Humanities" This book is a work of major importance for the development of environmental and behavioral biology; it covers the classification, evolution, anatomy, physiology, and behavior of the higher social insects--ants, social wasps and bees, and termites. Mr. Wilson reinterprets the knowledge of these insects through the concepts of modern biology, from biochemistry to evolutionary theory and population ecology.
Illustrations: 32 halftones, 471 line illustrations, 2 maps, 38 tables
Publication: US
Imprint: Harvard University Press
Returns: Returnable
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