The Insect Societies

Edward O. Wilson

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$155.50 • £124.95 • €140.00

ISBN 9780674454903

Publication Date: 01/01/1971

Short

562 pages

8-1/2 x 10 inches

32 halftones, 471 line illustrations, 2 maps, 38 tables

Belknap Press

World

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Acknowledgment
1. Introduction: The Importance of Social Insects
2. The Degrees of Social Behavior
3. The Social Wasps
4. The Ants
5. The Social Bees
6. The Termites
7. The Presocial Insects
8. Caste: Ants
9. Caste: Social Bees and Wasps
10. Caste: Termites
11. The Elements of Behavior
12. Communication: Alarm and Assembly
13. Communication: Recruitment
14. Communication: Recognition, Food Exchange, and Grooming
15. Group Effects and the Control of Nestmates
16. Social Homeostasis and the Superorganism
17. The Genetic Theory of Social Behavior
18. Compromise and Optimization in Social Evolution
19. Symbioses among Social Insects
20. Symbioses with Other Arthropods
21. The Population Dynamics of Colonies
22. The Prospect for a Unified Sociobiology
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

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