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Article: Small world.(Review)
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- The Women's Review of Books
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
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Ants at Work: How an Insect Society is Organized by Deborah Gordon. New York: The Free Press, 1999, 182 pp., $25.00 hardcover, $13.95 paper.
Like humans, ants are social creatures, which goes far in explaining our fascination with them. Even before Harvard entomologist E. O. Wilson became famous for his groundbreaking studies of their behavior, our culture has been filled with allusions to the industry, perseverance and apparently mindless busy-ness of ants. We have even given the title of queen to the fertilized female ant whose descendants set up each colony, even though, as Deborah Gordon notes, that queen no more rules her colony than the current Queen of ...
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Article: FATHER NATURE CONSERVATIONIST EDWARD O. WILSON IS RENOWNED ...
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February 12, 2002 ;
700+ words
... ... hotspots around the world. Wilson is one of the finest literary ... Human Nature" and "The Ants"). Together, his prizes ... write about his beloved ants, the tiny creatures at ... he had just caught). Wilson's parents were divorced ... habits of, well, of an ant. Besides excelling in ...
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