本书作者评估了地球环境的岌岌可危状态, 审视了我们这个时代发生的大规模的物种灭绝和我们即将永久失去的自然宝库, 并提出了一个我们还来得及实施的拯救世界的特别计划.
"An audacious and concrete proposal...Half-Earth completes the 86-year-old Wilson's valedictory trilogy on the human animal and our place on the planet." --Jedediah Purdy, New Republic
Edward O. Wilson recalls his lifetime with ants, from his first boyhood encounters in the woods of Alabama to perilous journeys into the Brazilian rainforest.
An eloquent exploration of creativity, The Origins of Creativity grapples with the question of how this uniquely human expression--so central to our identity as individuals and, collectively, as a species--came about and how it has ...
The Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of Ants present a lavishly detailed account of the extraordinary lives of social insects that draws on more than two decades of research and offers insight into how bees, termites, and other insect ...
It has been out of print for several years, and in this volume Lumsden and Wilson provide a much needed facsimile edition of their original work, together with a major review of progress in the discipline during the ensuing quarter century.
Inspired by a section of the authors' acclaimed The Superorganism, this brilliantly illustrated work provides the ultimate explanation of what a social order with a half-billion years of animal evolution has achieved.
Like every other designer "breeds," this Doodle is not truly a breed of its own, however is a crossbreed - and in this example, a move this is taking part in developing reputation.GET YOUR COPY NOW!
Taking its call from the corn granaries, which attracted mice after which those mouse predators, the corn snake makes an amazing pup snake.
Argues that humanity must consider the histories of millions of other Earth species and increase the planet's regions of natural reserves in order to prevent future mass extinctions.
Richly illustrated throughout with depictions of ant species by Kristen Orr, as well as photos from Wilsons' expeditions throughout the world, Tales from the Ant World is a fascinating, if not occasionally hair-raising, personal account by ...