The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies
- ISBN-10
- 0393067041
- ISBN-13
- 9780393067040
- Category
- Science
- Pages
- 522
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Authors
- Edward O Wilson, Bert Hölldobler
Description
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 societies thrive in systems of altruistic cooperation, complex communication, and labor division. 50,000 first printing.
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