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The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and the Strangeness of Insect Societies by Bert Hölldobler, Honorary Curator in Entomology and University Research Professor Emeritus Edward O Wilson, Edward O. Wilson is a science book available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and the Strangeness of Insect Societies about?

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, 100 black-and-white

Who reads The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and the Strangeness of Insect Societies?

Author

Bert Hölldobler, Honorary Curator in Entomology and University Research Professor Emeritus Edward O Wilson, Edward O. Wilson

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company; W.W. Norton

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780393067040

Category

science

Subjects

Fiction, Biology, Science

Rating

4.12 / 5 (281 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14