The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of
: ndz 16 lis, 2008
Właśnie poprawiałem stronę wikipedii poświęconą E.O.Wilsonowi i zauważyłem, że razem z Holldoblerem napisał nową książkę zatytułowaną "The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies".
Zastanawiam się, jak bardzo naukowego języka autorzy używają w książce (mówiąc inaczej zastanawiam się nad kupnem). Obawiam się, że mógłbym mieć jednak pewne problemy z jej czytaniem.The Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of The Ants render the extraordinary lives of the social insects in this visually spectacular volume.
The Superorganism promises to be one of the most important scientific works published in this decade. Coming eighteen years after the publication of The Ants, this new volume expands our knowledge of the social insects (among them, ants, bees, wasps, and termites) and is based on remarkable research conducted mostly within the last two decades. These superorganisms—a tightly knit colony of individuals, formed by altruistic cooperation, complex communication, and division of labor—represent one of the basic stages of biological organization, midway between the organism and the entire species. The study of the superorganism, as the authors demonstrate, has led to important advances in our understanding of how the transitions between such levels have occurred in evolution and how life as a whole has progressed from simple to complex forms. Ultimately, this book provides a deep look into a part of the living world hitherto glimpsed by only a very few. 110 color and 100 black-and-white illustrations.
ISBN: 9780393067040
Subtitle: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies
Author: Holldobler, Bert
Author: Wilson, Edward O.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Subject: Insects & Spiders
Subject: Life Sciences - Zoology - Entomology
Publication Date: November 2008
Binding: Hardcover
Grade Level: General/trade
Language: English
Illustrations: Y
Pages: 576
Dimensions: 10 x 8 in