Full name: Ants at Work: How an Insect Society Is Organized

Author: Deborah Gordon Year: 1999 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Science, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780393321326 9781451665703 0393321320 1451665709

Ants have long been regarded as the most interesting of the social insects. With their queens and celibate workers, these intriguing creatures have captured the imaginations of scientists and children alike for generations. Yet until now, no one had studied intensely the life cycle of the ant colony as a whole. An ant colony has a life cycle of about fifteen years--it is born, matures, and dies. But the individual ants that inhabit the colony live only one year. So how does this system of tunnels and caves in the dirt become so much more than the sum of its parts? Leading ant researcher Deborah Gordon takes the reader to the Arizona desert to explore this question. The answer involves the emerging insights of the new science of complexity, and contributes to understanding the evolution of life itself. Similar books: Journey to the Ants by Bert Holldobler The Superorganism by Bert Holldobler Adventures Among Ants by Mark W. Moffett The Ants by Bert Holldobler Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben Mycelium Running by Paul Stamets This Phenomenal Life by Misha Blaise Parasite Rex by Carl Zimmer I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong Parallel Worlds by Michio Kaku A Student's Guide to Maxwell's Equations by Daniel Fleisch Gravitation by Charles W. Misner Six Not-So-Easy Pieces by Richard P. Feynman Survival of the Sickest by Sharon Moalem Molecular Biology of the Cell by Bruce Alberts Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World by Paul Stamets Undeniable by Bill Nye How to Solve It by George Polya The Cloud Collector's Handbook by Gavin Pretor-Pinney