Journey to the Ants
A Story of Scientific Exploration
Bert Hölldobler
Edward O. Wilson
Preface
1. The Dominance of Ants
2. For the Love of Ants
3. The Life and Death of the Colony
4. How Ants Communicate
5. War and Foreign Policy
6. The Ur-Ants
7. Conflict and Dominance
8. The Origin of Cooperation
9. The Superorganism
10. Social Parasites: Breaking the Code
11. The Trophobionts
12. Army Ants
13. The Strangest Ants
14. How Ants Control Their Environment
Epilogue: Who Will Survive?
How to Study Ants
Acknowledgments
Index
Bert Hölldobler is now Foundation Professor of Biology at Arizona State University; formerly Chair of Behavioral Physiology and Sociology at the Theodor Boveri Institute, University of Würzburg. He is also the recipient of the U.S. Senior Scientist Prize of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German government. Until 1990, he was the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology at Harvard University.
Edward O. Wilson is Pellegrino University Professor at Harvard University. In addition to two Pulitzer Prizes (one of which he shares with Bert Hölldobler), Wilson has won many scientific awards, including the National Medal of Science and the Crafoord Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.