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"Deborah Gordon's Ants at Work takes us to the amazing world of an ant society and reveals a new and original understanding of how these tiny animals get the work of the colony done. Gordon's surprising and deceptively simple message that the queen is not in charge represents a fundamental shift in modern biology. It is no less than a revolution in our thinking on the mystery of natural organization."--BOOK JACKET. "Based on the author's seventeen years of research on harvester ants in the Arizona desert, Ants at Work overturns all standard ideas of insect society hierarchy. Gordon shows that an ant colony operates without any central control and that no ant has power over another. Yet the ant colony harmoniously performs extremely complex tasks, including nest building, navigation, foraging, food storage, tending the young, garbage collection, and on occasion, even war."--BOOK JACKET. "By focusing on chaotic patterns of behavior instead of searching for fixed universal laws, Gordon signals the future of scientific investigation. She boldly contends that ant communication is a model of how brains, immune systems, and the natural world as a whole organize themselves. Her discoveries

Who reads Ants at Work : How an Insect Society Is Organized?

Author

Deborah M Gordon

Publisher

The Free Press

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780684857336

Category

science

Subjects

Fiction, Nature, Engineering

Rating

3.9 / 5 (25 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14