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E-book: Tales from the Ant World

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(Harvard University)
  • Format: 240 pages
  • Pub. Date: 25-Aug-2020
  • Publisher: WW Norton & Co
  • Language: eng
  • ISBN-13: 9781631495571
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  • Format: 240 pages
  • Pub. Date: 25-Aug-2020
  • Publisher: WW Norton & Co
  • Language: eng
  • ISBN-13: 9781631495571
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In Tales from the Ant World, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Edward O. Wilson takes us on a thrilling myrmecological tour across continents and through time, inviting us into his decades-long scientific obsession with ants. Animating his observations with personal stories, Wilson hones in on twenty-five ant species to explain how these creatures talk, smell, taste, and crucially, how they fight to determine dominance. Richly illustrated throughout with depictions of ant species and photos from Wilsons own expeditions, Tales from the Ant World is a fascinating personal account from one of our greatest scientistsand a necessary volume for any lover of the natural world.
Introduction: Ants Rule 9(6)
1 Of Ants and Men: Morality and Triumph
15(4)
2 The Making of a Naturalist
19(8)
3 The Right Species
27(8)
4 Army Ants
35(8)
5 Fire Ants
43(6)
6 How Fire Ants Made Environmental" History
49(10)
7 Ants Defeat the Conquistadors
59(4)
8 The Fiercest Ants in the World, and Why
63(10)
9 The Benevolent Matriarchy
73(6)
10 Ants Talk with Smell and Taste
79(8)
11 How We Broke the Pheromone Code
87(10)
12 Speaking Formic
97(4)
13 Ants Are Everywhere (Almost)
101(12)
14 Homeward Bound
113(10)
15 Adventures in Myrmecology
123(6)
16 The Fastest Ants in the World, and the Slowest
129(8)
17 Social Parasites Are Colony Engineers
137(6)
18 The Matabele, Warrior Ants of Africa
143(6)
19 War and Slavery among the Ants
149(6)
20 The Walking Dead
155(4)
21 Tiny Cattle Ranchers of Africa
159(4)
22 Trapjaws versus-Springtails
163(12)
23 Searching for the Rare
175(8)
24 An Endangered Species
183(10)
25 Leafcutters, the Ultimate Superorganisms
193(12)
26 Ants That Lived with the Dinosaurs
205(6)
Acknowledgments 211(2)
References 213(4)
Index 217
Edward O. Wilson (1929-2021) was the author of more than thirty books, including Anthill, Letters to a Young Scientist, and The Conquest of Nature. The winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, Wilson was a professor emeritus at Harvard University and lived with his wife in Lexington, Massachusetts.
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