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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of The Ants comes this dynamic and visually spectacular portrait of Earth's ultimate superorganism. With a text suitable for both a lay and a scientific audience, The Leafcutter Ants is the most detailed and authoritative description of an ant species ever produced. Each colony of leafcutters contains up to five million workers, all the daughters of a single queen that can live for over a decade. A nest can stretch nine metres across, rise one and a half metres or more above ground and can reach over seven metres below ground. The leafcutter ants have expanded their instinctive civilisation into a virtual domination of the land from Louisiana to Patagonia. Inspired by a section of the authors' acclaimed The Superorganism (ISBN 978 0 393 06704 0), this is the ultimate explanation of what a social order with a half-billion years of animal evolution has achieved.
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Bert Holldobler is the Foundation Professor at Arizona State University. Edward O. Wilson, a Harvard University professor for nearly five decades, is the author of more than twenty books. Both are the recipients of numerous awards.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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I have been fascinated by ants ever since I was knee high to one and have quite a library of ant books. This is my latest one and is written by the "Godfathers" of myrmecology (the study of ants).
It is vary easy to read and understand with lots of vary interesting information.
Seeing as it is a "text" book with diagrams and charts, it works vary well on the Kindle.
It is vary easy to read and understand with lots of vary interesting information.
Seeing as it is a "text" book with diagrams and charts, it works vary well on the Kindle.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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For a biologist like me, interested in insects, reading this book is like eating chocolate cookies. The book feels sometimes quite technical (lots of taxonomy etc.), but the subject is so interesting that the scientific grip doesn't ruin it. Based on structuring of the chapters, I got the feeling that the book is written in haste - so only 4 stars. In any case, I recommend the book to everyone interested in Nature's little wonders!
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Leafcutter ants are fascinating creatures, and this is a fascinating book about them. The downside is that it is, as Hölldobler and Wilson openly admit, merely an expanded chapter from their 2009 book, 'The Superorganism'. To be honest, it does feel more like a long chapter than a whole book: the main text runs to only 127 pages, with generous line spacing and wide margins, and about a third of those pages are taken up by photographs.
If you're interested in ants, this will whet your appetite for more. But 'The Superorganism' gives better value for money, and the new book has relatively little to offer readers who already own its larger predecessor.
If you're interested in ants, this will whet your appetite for more. But 'The Superorganism' gives better value for money, and the new book has relatively little to offer readers who already own its larger predecessor.
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