Volume 2 · Part II · 1994
Journey to the Ants
Hölldobler, Bert, and Edward O. Wilson.
Published 1994
Author(s) Hölldobler, Bert, and Edward O. Wilson.
LC Class QL568.F7 H575 1994
LCCN 94013386
Summary
Hölldobler and Wilson open with Wilson's famous claim that ants and other small creatures are the little things that run the world, dominating terrestrial ecosystems through sheer numbers. They marshal figures on ant biomass and abundance to argue that these insects, though easily overlooked, are among the most ecologically powerful animals on Earth.
Table of Contents
- Chapter 1. The Dominance of Ants
- Chapter 2. For the Love of Ants
- Chapter 3. The Life and Death of the Colony
- Chapter 4. How Ants Communicate
- Chapter 5. War and Foreign Policy
- Chapter 6. The Ur-Ants
- Chapter 7. Conflict and Dominance
- Chapter 8. The Origin of Cooperation
- Chapter 9. The Superorganism
- Chapter 10. Social Parasites
- Chapter 11. Breaking the Code
- Chapter 12. The Trophobionts
- Chapter 13. Army Ants
- Chapter 14. The Strangest Ants
- Chapter 15. How Ants Control Their Environment
- Epilogue. Who Will Survive?
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