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The Leafcutter Ants - 9780393338683
Un libro in lingua di Bert Holldobler Wilson Edward O. edito da W W Norton & Co Inc, 2010
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The Leafcutter Ants is the most detailed and authoritative description of any ant species ever produced. With a text suitable for both a lay and a scientific audience, the book provides an unforgettable tour of Earth's most evolved animal societies. Each colony of leafcutters contains as many as five million workers, all the daughters of a single queen that can live over a decade. A gigantic nest can stretch thirty feet across, rise five feet or more above the ground, and consist of hundreds of chambers that reach twenty-five feet below the ground surface. Indeed, the leafcutters have parlayed their instinctive civilization into a virtual domination of forest, grassland, and cropland—from Louisiana to Patagonia. Inspired by a section of the authors' acclaimed The Superorganism, this brilliantly illustrated work provides the ultimate explanation of what a social order with a half-billion years of animal evolution has achieved.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: The Leafcutter Ants
- Lingua: English
- Autori : Bert Holldobler Wilson Edward O.
- Editore: W W Norton & Co Inc
- Data di Pubblicazione: 15 Novembre '10
- Genere: SCIENCE
- ISBN-10: 0393338681
- EAN-13: 9780393338683