Journey to the Ants: A Story of Scientific Exploration

Awards:   Short-listed for Rhone Poulenc General Prize for Science Books 1995 Shortlisted for Rhone Poulenc General Prize for Science Books 1995.
Author:   Bert Hölldobler ,  Edward O. Wilson ,  Bert Hoelldobler
Publisher:   Harvard University Press
Edition:   New edition
ISBN:  

9780674485266


Pages:   240
Publication Date:   21 July 1998
Format:   Paperback
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  • Short-listed for Rhone Poulenc General Prize for Science Books 1995
  • Shortlisted for Rhone Poulenc General Prize for Science Books 1995.

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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.

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Author:   Bert Hölldobler ,  Edward O. Wilson ,  Bert Hoelldobler
Publisher:   Harvard University Press
Imprint:   The Belknap Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 20.30cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.717kg
ISBN:  

9780674485266


ISBN 10:   0674485262
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   21 July 1998
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Holldobler and Wilson have carefully distilled more than 80 years of their combined personal research and thorough knowledge of the literature to produce a book that is both packed with ideas and information and a joy to read. The authors subtitled their book 'A Story of Scientific Exploration' and, like all good stories, it has a logical progression and sensible themes and is hard to put down. -- C. Ronald Carroll American Scientist


Beautifully written and illustrated...These fifteen chapters are a bustling but well-organized ant heap, full of wonders natural and intellectual. -- Philip Morrison * Scientific American * Everyone should read Journey to the Ants; it is a book to read right through; I have done so twice so far. It brings back the joy of science and restores the sense of wonder, it is truly food for thought. For me it is a beloved book that will stay at my bedside. -- James E. Lovelock * Times Higher Education Supplement * Hölldobler and Wilson have carefully distilled more than 80 years of their combined personal research and thorough knowledge of the literature to produce a book that is both packed with ideas and information and a joy to read. The authors subtitled their book 'A Story of Scientific Exploration' and, like all good stories, it has a logical progression and sensible themes and is hard to put down. -- C. Ronald Carroll * American Scientist *


Author Information

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.

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