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The Other Insect Societies (Hardcover)
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The Other Insect Societies (Hardcover)
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Asked to name an insect society, most of us--whether casual or
professional students of nature--quickly point to one of the
so-called eusocial marvels: the ant colony, the beehive, the
termite mound, the wasp nest. Each is awe-inspiring in its division
of labor--collective defense, foraging, and nestbuilding. Yet E. O.
Wilson cautioned back in 1971 that sociality should be defined more
broadly, "in order to prevent the arbitrary exclusion of many
interesting phenomena." Thirty-five years later, James T. Costa
gives those interesting phenomena their due. He argues that, in
trying to solve the puzzle of how highly eusocial behaviors evolved
in a few insect orders, evolutionary biologists have neglected the
more diverse social arrangements in the remaining twenty-eight
orders--insect societies that don't fit the eusocial schema. Costa
synthesizes here for the first time the scattered literature about
social phenomena across the arthropod phylum: beetles and bugs,
caterpillars and cockroaches, mantids and membracids, sawflies and
spiders. This wide-ranging tour takes a rich narrative approach
that interweaves theory and data analysis with the behavior and
ecology of these remarkable groups. This comprehensive treatment is
likely to inspire a new generation of naturalists to take a closer
look.
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