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Bert Hölldobler, Edward O. Wilson - Journey to the Ants, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 1998

Journey to the Ants

A Story of Scientific Exploration

Av Bert Hölldobler, Edward O. Wilson

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Beskrivning
Richly illustrated and delightfully written, Journey to the Ants combines autobiography and scientific lore to convey the excitement and pleasure the study of ants can offer. Bert Hölldobler and E. O. Wilson 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.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 1998-07-21
  • Mått: 200 x 240 x 25 mm
  • Vikt: 710 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 240
  • Förlag: Harvard University Press
  • ISBN: 9780674485266
  • Utmärkelser: Short-listed for Rhone Poulenc General Prize for Science Books 1995
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Bert Hölldobler is the Robert A. Johnson Professor in Social Insect Research at Arizona State University. He was previously Professor of Biology and Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology at Harvard University and subsequently held the chair for Behavioral Physiology and Sociobiology at the University of Würzburg, Germany. He is an elected member of many academies, including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the US National Academy of Sciences, and the German National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina. He has received many awards, among them the Pulitzer Prize for The Ants, coauthored with E. O. Wilson. Edward O. Wilson was Pellegrino University Professor, Emeritus, at Harvard University. In addition to two Pulitzer Prizes (one of which he shares with Bert Hölldobler), Wilson has won many scientific awards, including the National Medal of Science and the Crafoord Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Recensioner i media

Beautifully written and illustrated...These fifteen chapters are a bustling but well-organized ant heap, full of wonders natural and intellectual.

Betyg & recensioner

3 recensioner, genomsnitt 4.7/5

  1. 5/5 Thomas
  2. 4/5 Mikael K
  3. 5/5 Cjn