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The Art of the Bee - Shaping the Environment from Landscapes to Societies (Hardcover)
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The Art of the Bee - Shaping the Environment from Landscapes to Societies (Hardcover)
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The impact of bees on our world is immeasurable. Bees are
responsible for the evolution of the vast array of brightly colored
flowers and for engineering the niches of multitudes of plants,
animals, and microbes. They've painted our landscapes with flowers
through their pollination activities, and they have evolved the
most complex societies to aid their exploitation of the
environment. The parallels between human and insect societies have
been explored by countless sociobiologists. Traditional texts
present stratified layers of knowledge where the reader excavates
levels of biological organization, each building on the last. In
this book, Robert E. Page, Jr., delves deep into the evolutionary
history and the sociality of bees. He presents fundamental
biology-not in layers, but wrapped around interesting themes and
concepts, and in ways designed to explore and understand each
concept. Page uses the social contract as a way to examine the
complex social system of bee societies, a contract that has been
written over millions of years of social evolution on the fabric of
DNA. The book examines the coevolution of bees and flowering
plants, bees as engineers of the environment, the evolution of
sociality, the honey bee as a superorganism and how it evolves, and
the mating behavior of the queen. The resulting book explores the
ways human societies and bee colonies are similar-not from a common
ancestry with shared genes for sociality, but from shared
fundamentals of political philosophy.
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