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Richly illustrated and delightfully written, Journey to the Ants combines autobiography and scientific lore to convey the excitement and pleasure the study of ants can offer. Bert Hölldobler and E. O. Wilson interweave their personal adventures with the social lives of ants, building, from the first minute observations of childhood, a remarkable account of these abundant insects' evolutionary achievement.
Wilson's The Ants won a Pulitzer Prize. Now, the authors present a richly illustrated book that combines their own personal stories with scientific lore to convey the excitement and pleasure of studying ants.
Hölldobler and Wilson have carefully distilled more than 80 years of their combined personal research and thorough knowledge of the literature to produce a book that is both packed with ideas and information and a joy to read. The authors subtitled their book 'A Story of Scientific Exploration' and, like all good stories, it has a logical progression and sensible themes and is hard to put down.
— C. Ronald Carroll
Beautifully written and illustrated...These fifteen chapters are a bustling but well-organized ant heap, full of wonders natural and intellectual.
— Philip Morrison
Everyone should read Journey to the Ants; it is a book to read right through; I have done so twice so far. It brings back the joy of science and restores the sense of wonder, it is truly food for thought. For me it is a beloved book that will stay at my bedside.
— James E. Lovelock
Preface
1. The Dominance of Ants
2. For the Love of Ants
3. The Life and Death of the Colony
4. How Ants Communicate
5. War and Foreign Policy
6. The Ur-Ants
7. Conflict and Dominance
8. The Origin of Cooperation
9. The Superorganism
10. Social Parasites: Breaking the Code
11. The Trophobionts
12. Army Ants
13. The Strangest Ants
14. How Ants Control Their Environment
Epilogue: Who Will Survive?
How to Study Ants
Acknowledgments
Index
Anonymous
Posted February 10, 2001
Before I read this book, I thought ants were pretty ordinary, uninteresting insects. They seemed to be the 'generic insect'. When I recieved this book as a christmas present, I thought 'hey, they're ants, what else is there to know?'. Well, i was quite wrong. This book clearly described every fascinating aspect of the society of the ants. After I finished this book, I gained an abundance of knowledge and a different point of view.
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View a collection of videos on Professor Wilson entitled "On the Relation of Science and the Humanities"
Richly illustrated and delightfully written, Journey to the Ants combines autobiography and scientific lore to convey the excitement and pleasure the study of ants can offer. Bert Hölldobler and E. O. Wilson interweave their personal adventures with the social lives of ants, building, from the first minute observations of childhood, a ...