The Lives of Ants
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"The Lives of Ants" combines natural history with molecular biology, genetics, and even the latest developments in robotics, to explore the intricately organized societies of ants, revealing the secret of the huge ecological success of these remarkable...
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"The Lives of Ants" combines natural history with molecular biology, genetics, and even the latest developments in robotics, to explore the intricately organized societies of ants, revealing the secret of the huge ecological success of these remarkable creatures, and how they cooperate, communicate, exploit other animals and even go to war.
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Humans have long been fascinated by ants. While not necessarily brightly coloured or beautiful, ants display some remarkable characteristics that are almost unique in the animal world. They live in intricately organized societies, made up of individuals that cooperate, communicate, and divide up daily tasks. They display amazing ingenuity when it comes to building nests and other structures, finding supplies, or even exploiting other members of the animal kingdom. They are capabletoo of aggression and violence, of disturbing the apparent peace of their colonies and of sudden fratricidal or matricidal strife. In short, the lives of ants are among the most fascinating in the natural world.
This is an account of those lives - looking at the many species of ants around the world, explaining the secret of their huge ecological success, examining the remarkable and varied behaviours that ants exhibit, and tying in molecular biology, genetics, and even cutting-edge developments in robotics, to shed light on what makes ants unique.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „The Lives of Ants “
Introduction; AN ECOLOGICAL SUCCESS STORY; 1. Anywhere and everywhere; 2. On tastes and colours; 3. The secrets of success; 4. A huge impact on the environment; 5. A long long story; SOCIAL LIFE; 6. The birth of the colony; 7. Division of labour; 8. Let slip the ants of war; 9. Flexible work arrangements; 10. Communication systems; 11. Family models; 12. Parasites and slave-makers; NOWT SO RUM AS ANTS!; 13. Army ants; 14. We work at the weaver's trade; 15. Navigators who never lose their way; 16. Honeypots; ADVANTAGEOUS LIAISONS; 17. Colonies and their livestock; 18. Ant trees; 19. Attines and mushrooms getting on famously; BLOODY PESTS!; 20. Stand by for invaders!; 21. Supercolonies; KITH AND KIN; 22. Genetic altruism and sociality; 23. Family feuds; 24. Nepotism or not?; 25. Caste struggles; 26. Anything goes; SOCIOGENETICS; 27. Genes and family structure; 28. The genomics of behaviour; 29. So what's so special about the genome of fire ants?; HIGH-TECH ANTS; 30. Computer modelling behaviour; 31. Of ants and IT men; 32. Swarm robotics; Conclusion; Further reading
Autoren-Porträt von Laurent Keller, Elisabeth Gordon
Laurent Keller is Professor of Ecology and Evolution, and Head of the Department of Ecology and Evolution, at the University of Lausanne. As well as numerous research papers, he has edited the books 'Queen Number and Sociality in Insects' ((1993) and 'Levels of Selection in Evolution' (1999). In 2005 he was awarded the E. O. Wilson Naturalist Award
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autoren: Laurent Keller , Elisabeth Gordon
- 2010, 252 Seiten, 8 farbige Abbildungen, Maße: 12,7 x 19,8 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Übersetzer: James Grieve
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0199541876
- ISBN-13: 9780199541874
Sprache:
Englisch
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Review from previous edition This readable book contains...and answers all the things you've ever wanted to know about ants. |s James Delingpole, Mail on Sunday |d 17/05/2009
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