The Buzz about Bees
Biology of a Superorganism
(Sprache: Englisch)
With spectacularly beautiful colour photographs, this easily understandable text tells the story of honeybees in a new perspective. Based on the latest data, notably from his own research group, Jürgen Tautz provides a wonderful insight into the realm of bees.
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With spectacularly beautiful colour photographs, this easily understandable text tells the story of honeybees in a new perspective. Based on the latest data, notably from his own research group, Jürgen Tautz provides a wonderful insight into the realm of bees.
Klappentext zu „The Buzz about Bees “
Tis book, already translated into ten languages, may at frst sight appear to be just about honeybees and their biology. It c- tains, however, a number of deeper messages related to some of the most basic and important principles of modern biology. Te bees are merely the actors that take us into the realm of phys- ology, genetics, reproduction, biophysics and learning, and that introduce us to the principles of natural selection underlying the evolution of simple to complex life forms. Te book destroys the cute notion of bees as anthropomorphic icons of busy self-sacr -i fcing individuals and presents us with the reality of the colony as an integrated and independent being a superorganism with its own, almost eerie, emergent group intelligence. We are s- prised to learn that no single bee, from queen through drone to sterile worker, has the oversight or control over the colony. - stead, through a network of integrated control systems and fee- backs, and communication between individuals, the colony - rives at consensus decisions from the bottom up through a type of swarm intelligence . Indeed, there are remarkable parallels between the functional organization of a swarming honeybee colony and vertebrate brains.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „The Buzz about Bees “
Prolog: The Bee Colony a Mammal in Many Bodies.- Man s Smallest Domestic Animal a Picture Guide.- The Inevitable Honeybees.- Propagated Immortality.- Honeybees a Model for Success.- What Bees Know About Flowers.- Honeybee Sex, and Virgin Brides.- Royal Jelly Designer Diet in Bee Colonies.- The Largest Organ of the Bee Colony Construction and Function of the Comb.- Cultivated Intelligence.- Is Honey Thicker than Blood: How Important Is the Family?.- The Circle Closes.- Epilog: The Future for Bees and Mankind.
Autoren-Porträt von Jürgen Tautz
Jürgen Tautz ist Professor am Biozentrum der Bayerischen Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg und Leiter der dortigen BEEgroup. Als Wissenschaftler und als Vorsitzender von 'Bienenforschung Würzburg e.V.' verfolgt er mit seinem Team zwei Ziele gleichermaßen intensiv: Grundlagenforschung zur Biologie der Honigbiene und Vermittlung des Wissens um die Biene in eine breite Öffentlichkeit.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Jürgen Tautz
- 2010, 284 Seiten, 230 farbige Abbildungen, Maße: 23,5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Übersetzung: Sandeman, David C.; Fotos: Heilmann, Helga R.
- Übersetzer: David C. Sandeman
- Verlag: Springer
- ISBN-10: 3642097502
- ISBN-13: 9783642097508
Sprache:
Englisch
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