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Academic & Professional Books  Insects & other Invertebrates  Insects  Bees, Ants & Wasps (Hymenoptera)

Ants at Work How an Insect Society is Organized

Popular Science
By: Deborah M Gordon(Author)
182 pages, b/w illustrations
Publisher: Free Press
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The Stanford University professor 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 over time.

Contents

Introduction
1. The rhythms of the landscape
2. The growth of an ant society
3. Food and the foreign relations of ant societies
4. A forest of ant colonies
5. In the society of ants
6. Networks of ant paths
7. Success without management
8. Complex systems
Epilogue: Lessons from the ants

Notes
Index

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Biography

Deborah M. Gordon, Ph.D., studied at Oberlin College, Stanford University, and Duke University, and researched at Harvard University and the University of Oxford before joining the faculty at Stanford, where she is Associate Professor of Biological Sciences. She lives in Redwood City, California.

Popular Science
By: Deborah M Gordon(Author)
182 pages, b/w illustrations
Publisher: Free Press
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