The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies

Bert Hoelldobler and Edward O. Wilson

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 divisio...