Journey to the Ants: A Story of Scientific Exploration

Journey to the Ants: A Story of Scientific Exploration
ISBN-10
0674485262
ISBN-13
9780674485266
Category
Science
Pages
240
Language
English
Published
1998-07-21
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Authors
Edward O. Wilson, Bert Hölldobler

Description

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. Bert Hölldobler and E. O. Wilson interweave their personal adventures with the social lives of ants, building, from the first minute observations of childhood, a remarkable account of these abundant insects’ evolutionary achievement.

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