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Journey to the Ants: A Story of Scientific Exploration

by: Bert Hölldobler, Edward O. Wilson

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 595
EAN: 9780674485266
ISBN: 0674485262
Label: Belknap Press
Manufacturer: Belknap Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: July 21, 1998
Publisher: Belknap Press
Sales Rank: 16170
Studio: Belknap Press



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Product Description:
A prize-winning behavioral scientist and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Diversity of Life interweave their personal adventures with the social lives of ants, building, from the first minute observations of childhood, a remarkable account of these abundant insects' evolutionary achievement. 173 illustrations, 95 in color.

Amazon.com Review:
'Look to the ant, thou sluggard, consider her ways and be wise,' says the proverb. Bert Hölldobler and E.O. Wilson have joined together to tell how they took this advice and to share the fruits of their wisdom. As Nature said, they 'have done for ants what Levi's did for denim.' Not just a good-parts version of their magisterial, Pulitzer-winning The Ants, Journey is also a double autobiography--the history of how early enthusiasm developed into an enormously fruitful scientific collaboration. 'We, having entered our bug period as children, were blessed by never being required to abandon it,' the authors write. Their devotion to their chosen field shines through.

Journey to the Ants gives an outstanding overview of the enormous variety and fascination of myrmecology, from the primitive bulldog ants of Australia to the complexities of weaver ant societies, slave-making ants and agriculture, army ants, and the social parasites concealed within anthills. There is an appendix with practical instructions for collecting individual ants or whole colonies, dead or alive. Hölldobler and Wilson clearly want other children to follow in their footsteps, growing from simple bug love to insights into evolution and society. --Mary Ellen Curtin



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Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Journey of the Ants
I have to admit I did not expect to find this book as interesting as it turned out to be. I was only ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Start point book
Apart from being a great book for all kind of reader, it was, for me (eight years ago!), a start point ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Truly a fascinating adventure to another world
Journey to the Ants is a shorter version of the authors' monumental The Ants (1990), a 732-page tome aimed ... Read More


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - amazing
There is few to say that has not been said. It is very well written and the information is mind-boggling.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Wonderful!
I loved this book. After reading it I spent the next night telling my wife all I'd managed to remember.
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