The Insect Societies

About the author

Edward O. Wilson was Pellegrino University Professor, Emeritus, at Harvard University. In addition to two Pulitzer Prizes (one of which he shares with Bert Hölldobler), Wilson has won many scientific awards, including the National Medal of Science and the Crafoord Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Summary

A major work of environmental and behavioral biology, this book reinterprets the classification, evolution, anatomy, physiology, and behavior of the higher social insects—ants, social wasps and bees, and termites—through the concepts of modern biology, from biochemistry to evolutionary theory and population ecology.

Product details

• Authors: Edward O. Wilson, Wilson Edward O.
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1971
• EAN: 9780674454903
• ISBN: 978-0-674-45490-3
• Illustrations: 32 halftones, 471 line illustrations, 2 maps, 38 tables
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Zoology; Science: general issues, SCIENCE / General, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology, Biology, life sciences, Miscellaneous items