The superorganism : the beauty, elegance, and strangeness of insect societies /
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 comm...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
W.W. Norton & Company,
[2009]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xxi, 522 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780393067040 (hardcover) 0393067041 (hardcover) |