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The Wisdom of the Hive - The Social Physiology of Honey Bee Colonies (Hardcover, New)
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The Wisdom of the Hive - The Social Physiology of Honey Bee Colonies (Hardcover, New)
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This book is about the inner workings of one of nature’s most
complex animal societies: the honey bee colony. It describes and
illustrates the results of more than fifteen years of elegant
experimental studies conducted by the author. In his
investigations, Thomas Seeley has sought the answer to the question
of how a colony of bees is organized to gather its resources. The
results of his research—including studies of the shaking signal,
tremble dance, and waggle dance, and other, more subtle means by
which information is exchanged among bees—offer the clearest,
most detailed picture available of how a highly integrated animal
society works. By showing how several thousand bees function
together as an integrated whole to collect the nectar, pollen, and
water that sustain the life of the hive, Seeley sheds light on one
of the central puzzles of biology: how units at one level of
organization can work together to form a higher-level entity. In
explaining why a hive is organized the way it is, Seeley draws on
the literature of molecular biology, cell biology, animal and human
sociology, economics, and operations research. He compares the
honey bee colony to other functionally organized groups:
multicellular organisms, colonies of marine invertebrates, and
human societies. All highly cooperative groups share basic
problems: of allocating their members among tasks so that more
urgent needs are met before less urgent ones, and of coordinating
individual actions into a coherent whole. By comparing such systems
in different species, Seeley argues, we can deepen our
understanding of the mechanisms that make close cooperation a
reality.
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