| Product Summary | | Format: Hardcover | | ISBN: 9780393067040 | | Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company | | Publish Date: 11/9/2008 | | Buy.com Sku: 208067424 | | Item#: | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 68799 | | Dimensions (in Inches) 10.25H x 8.5L x 1.5T | | Pages: 576 |
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| | | The Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of "The Ants" render the extraordinary lives of the social insects--ants, bees, wasps, and termites--in this visually spectacular volume. 110 color and 100 black-and-white illustrations.
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Clocking in at more than 500 pages, THE SUPERORGANISM is an intelligent readable natural history detailing the social lives of swarm and hive creatures like bees, ants, and termites. Avoiding the grandiose, utopian gestures with which many have painted bees, ants, and termites, Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson (whose book THE ANTS won a Pulitzer in 1991) describe the functionality and practicality of the way these insects work together. Each little crawler or buzzer serves a particular purpose, turning the colony into effectively a highly productive "superorganism." Selected by the New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of 2008.
| Praise| "Charles Darwin would have been delighted by this book." - Steve Jones 11/23/2008 "[T]his is a profoundly important book with immediate relevance for anyone interested in the trends now shaping our own societies." - Tim Flannery 02/26/2009 |
| Author Bio| Bert Holldobler | | Bert Holldobler has chaired of the Department of Behavioral Physiology and Sociobiology at the Theodor Boveri Institute, University of Wurzburg. He received the United States Senior Scientist Prize of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German government. Until 1990, he was the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology at Harvard University. |
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