The ants / Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hölldobler, Bert, 1936-

Contributor:

Wilson, Edward O.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ants.

Medical Subjects:

Ants.

Physical Description:

xii, 732 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1990.

Summary:

This landmark work, the distillation of a lifetime of research by the world's leading myrmecologists, is a thoroughgoing survey of one of the largest and most diverse groups of animals on the planet. Ho ̈lldobler and Wilson review in exhaustive detail virtually all topics in the anatomy, physiology, social organization, ecology, and natural history of the ants. In large format, with almost a thousand line drawings, photographs, and painting, it is one of the most visually rich and all-encompassing view of any group of organisms on earth. It will be welcomed both as an introduction to the subject and as an encyclopedia reference for researchers in entomology, ecology, and sociobiology.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0674040759

OCLC:

19325464