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Ants have always fascinated the nature observer. Reports from ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia indicate that ants interested humans long ago. Myrmecology as a science had its beginning in the last century with great naturalists like Andre, Darwin, Emery, Escherich, Fabre, Fields, Forel, Janet, Karawaiew, McCook, Mayr, Smith, Wasmann and Wheeler. They studied ants as an interesting biological phenomenon, with little thought of the possible beneficial or detrimental effects ants could have on human activities (see Wheeler 1910 as an example). When Europeans began colonizing the New World, serious ant problems occurred. The first reports of pest ants came from Spanish and Portuguese officials of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in Trinidad, The West Indies, Central America and South America. Leaf-cutting ants were blamed for making agricultural development almost impossible in many areas. These ants, Atta and Acromyrmex species, are undoubtedly the first ants identified as pests and may be considered to have initiated interest and research in applied myrmecology (Mariconi 1970).
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This book brings together a broad range of pest ant articles for recognizing that many ant species have an important role in their ecosystems. It permits the separation of myrmecology from the penta- and quadrinomial system.
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In What is Science?, Jaffe seeks to define science conceptually. Understanding our environment and ourselves is and has been the most important intellectual activity of mankind. It was only after the emergence of the empirical science (i.e. experiment philosophy) that humanity achieved accelerated social, economic, and technological progress. The emergence of science made possible the industrial revolution and the development of a multitude of scientific disciplines, all very successful in advancing our understanding of the world and of ourselves. What is the key that makes science more efficient in advancing our knowledge than any other heuristics?
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The process by which information enables energy to produce useful work is fundamental to understand the principles of engineering, and the working of all systems, including human economies. This concept, known as Infodynamics, synthesizes ideas from physics, biology, ecology, sociology and political sciences, and allows us to analyze economies and ecosystems through the lens of complex systems theory. Infodynamics, Economics, Energy, and Life introduces a holistic empirical perspective of the emergence, evolution and functioning of biological and economic systems. Maxwell’s demon in quantum mechanics, singing wales in the oceans, AI programmers, music composers and law writing legislators, all aim to create synergies to increase economic efficiency and sustainability in organisms and society using information. By bridging the gap between information theory and thermodynamics, the book underscores the value of interdisciplinary approaches in addressing complex social phenomena, providing fundamental insights to policymakers, sociologist and any researcher concerned with the future of our bio-social-economic systems.Infodynamics unveils profound universal patterns, conspicuous among all life forms and all human civilizations. Readers will gain a deeper interdisciplinary understanding of the interplay between information and energy across all dimensions of our world, so as to improve their areas of expertise or even their scientific discipline.