Ants at Work: How an Insect Society is Organized
- ISBN-10
- 0393321320
- ISBN-13
- 9780393321326
- Category
- Nature
- Pages
- 182
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Authors
- Deborah Gordon, Deborah M. Gordon
Description
Summarizes two decades of research on ants conducted in the Arizona desert in a revolutionary re-examination of how ant society is organized, how individual members make decisions, and how a colony evolves.
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