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  The Super-organism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies (Hardback) By (author) Bert Holldobler, By (author) Edward O. Wilson

  

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  Short Description for The Super-organismDemonstrates that the study of the superorganism has led to various developments in our understanding of how the transitions between such levels have occurred in evolution and how life has progressed from simple to complex forms.
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  • Publisher: WW Norton & Co
  • Published: 01 January 2009
  • Format: Hardback 576 pages
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  • Categories: Biology, Life Sciences | Insects (entomology) | Wildlife: Butterflies, Other Insects & Spiders
  • ISBN 13: 9780393067040 ISBN 10: 0393067041
  • Sales rank: 94,967

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• Based on remarkable research, eighteen years after the publication of "The Ants", this new volume expands our knowledge of social insects (among them, ants, bees, wasps and termites). Superorganisms - tightly knit colonies of individuals, formed by altruistic co-operation, complex communication and division of labour - represent one of the basic stages of biological organisation, midway between the organism and the species. As the authors demonstrate, the study of the superorganism has led to important advances in our understanding of how the transitions between such levels have occurred in evolution and how life has progressed from simple to complex forms. Visually spectacular, "The Superorganism" provides a deep look into a part of the living world hitherto glimpsed by only a few.