- 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

The Insect Societies
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HARDCOVER
$155.50 • £124.95 • €140.00
ISBN 9780674454903
Publication Date: 01/01/1971