Nature revealed : selected writings, 1949-2006

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  1. Nature revealed : selected writings, 1949-2006 / Edward O. Wilson.
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  1. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2006], ©2006.
Author
  1. Wilson, Edward O.

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Description
  1. x, 719 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm
Subject
  1. Ants
  2. Insect societies
  3. Biodiversity
  4. Biodiversity conservation
Contents
  1. Pt. I. Ants and sociobiology -- 1. Richteri, the fire ant -- 2. Variation and adaptation in the imported fire ant -- 3. The origin and evolution of polymorphism in ants -- 4. Quantitative studies of liquid food transmission in ants -- 5. The beginnings of nomadic and group-predatory behaviour in the ponerine ants -- 6. Source and possible nature of the odor trail of fire ants -- 7. Chemical communication among workers of the fire ant Solenopsis saevissima (Fr. Smith), 1. The organization of mass-foraging -- 8. Pheromones -- 9. The first Mesozoic ants -- 10. The ergonomics of caste in the social insects -- 11. The prospect for a unified sociobiology -- 12. Slavery in ants -- 13. Sociobiology : the new synthesis -- 14. Sociobiology at century's end -- 15. Human decency is animal -- 16. Behavioral discretization and the number of castes in an ant species -- 17. The organization of colony defense in the ant Pheidole dentata Mayr -- 18. The number of queens : an important trait in ant evolution -- 19. The ethical implications of human sociobiology -- 20. Caste and division of labor in leaf-cutter ants -- 21. Precis of Genes, Mind, and Culture -- 22. The relation between caste ratios and division of labor in the ant genus Pheidole -- 23. The sociogenesis of insect colonies -- 24. Between-caste aversion as a basis for division of labor in the ant Pheidole pubiventris -- 25. The earliest known ants : an analysis of the Cretaceous species and an inference concerning their social organization -- 26. The dominance of social insects -- 27. The effects of complex social life on evolution and biodiversity -- 28. Pheidole nasutoides, a new species of Costa Rican ant that apparently mimics termites -- 29. In memory of William Louis Brown -- 30. Ant plagues : a centuries-old mystery solved -- Pt. II. Biodiversity studies : systematics and biogeography -- 31. The subspecies concept and its taxonomic application -- 32. Character displacement -- 33. Patchy distributions of ant species in New Guinea rain forests -- 34. The nature of the taxon cycle in the Melanesian ant fauna -- 35. An equilibrium theory of island biogeography -- 36. A consistency test for phylogenies based on contemporaneous species -- 37. The challenge from related species -- 38. An estimate of the potential evolutionary increase in species density in the Polynesian ant fauna -- 39. The species equilibrium -- 40. The plight of taxonomy -- 41. The biogeography of the West Indian ants -- 42. Editor's foreword (from Biodiversity) -- 43. The current state of biological diversity -- 44. Threats to biodiversity -- 45. The high frontier -- 46. The origins of hyperdiversity -- 47. A global biodiversity map -- 48. On the future of conservation biology -- 49. The encyclopedia of life -- 50. Taxonomy as a fundamental discipline -- Pt. III. Conservation and the human condition -- 51. The conservation of life -- 52. Applied biogeography -- 53. Resolutions for the 80s -- 54. The biological diversity crisis : a challenge to science -- 55. Outcry from a world of wounds -- 56. The little things that run the world -- 57. The coming pluralization of biology and the stewardship of systematics -- 58. Biophilia and the conservation ethic -- 59. Is humanity suicidal? -- 60. Consilience among the great branches of learning -- 61. Integrated science and the coming century of the environment -- App. The published works of Edward O. Wilson.
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  1. Columbia University Libraries
Note
  1. Includes index.
  2. Published works of Edward O. Wilson (p. [689]-713).