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The Spirit of the Hive

The Mechanisms of Social Evolution
  • Robert E. Page Jr.
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2013
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How can 40,000 bees working in the dark, by instinct alone, construct a honey comb? Synthesizing decades of experiments, The Spirit of the Hive presents the genetic and physiological mechanisms underlying the division of labor in honey bee colonies and explains how it is an inevitable product of group living, evolving over millions of years.

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Page Robert E. :

Robert E. Page, Jr., is University Provost and Foundation Chair of Life Sciences at Arizona State University.Hölldobler Bert :

Bert Hölldobler is now Foundation Professor of Biology at Arizona State University; formerly Chair of Behavioral Physiology and Sociology at the Theodor Boveri Institute, University of Würzburg. He is also the recipient of the U.S. Senior Scientist Prize of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the German government. Until 1990, he was the Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology at Harvard University.


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eBook published on:
June 1, 2013
eBook ISBN:
9780674075542
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Main content:
240
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39 halftones, 30 line illustrations, 4 tables
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