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The contributor's primary goal in organizing this book was to
initiate a synthesis of thought on how genetics structures the
behavior of individual animals that live within complex social
systems. To do this they have brought together leading theorists
and empiricists who apply genetics to the study of eusocial insect
evolution.
The contributor's primary goal in organizing this book was to
initiate a synthesis of thought on how genetics structures the
behavior of individual animals that live within complex social
systems. To do this they have brought together leading theorists
and empiricists who apply genetics to the study of eusocial insect
evolution.
Charles Darwin struggled to explain how forty thousand bees working
in the dark, seemingly by instinct alone, could organize themselves
to construct something as perfect as a honey comb. How do bees
accomplish such incredible tasks? Synthesizing the findings of
decades of experiments, The Spirit of the Hive presents a
comprehensive picture of the genetic and physiological mechanisms
underlying the division of labor in honey bee colonies and explains
how bees' complex social behavior has evolved over millions of
years. Robert Page, one of the foremost honey bee geneticists in
the world, sheds light on how the coordinated activity of hives
arises naturally when worker bees respond to stimuli in their
environment. The actions they take in turn alter the environment
and so change the stimuli for their nestmates. For example, a bee
detecting ample stores of pollen in the hive is inhibited from
foraging for more, whereas detecting the presence of hungry young
larvae will stimulate pollen gathering. Division of labor, Page
shows, is an inevitable product of group living, because individual
bees vary genetically and physiologically in their sensitivities to
stimuli and have different probabilities of encountering and
responding to them. A fascinating window into self-organizing
regulatory networks of honey bees, The Spirit of the Hive applies
genomics, evolution, and behavior to elucidate the details of
social structure and advance our understanding of complex adaptive
systems in nature. Charles Darwin struggled to explain how forty
thousand bees working in the dark, seemingly by instinct alone,
could organize themselves to construct something as perfect as a
honey comb. How do bees accomplish such incredible tasks?
Synthesizing the findings of decades of experiments, The Spirit of
the Hive presents a comprehensive picture of the genetic and
physiological mechanisms underlying the division of labor in honey
bee colonies and explains how bees' complex social behavior has
evolved over millions of years. Robert Page, one of the foremost
honey bee geneticists in the world, sheds light on how the
coordinated activity of hives arises naturally when worker bees
respond to stimuli in their environment. The actions they take in
turn alter the environment and so change the stimuli for their
nestmates. For example, a bee detecting ample stores of pollen in
the hive is inhibited from foraging for more, whereas detecting the
presence of hungry young larvae will stimulate pollen gathering.
Division of labor, Page shows, is an inevitable product of group
living, because individual bees vary genetically and
physiologically in their sensitivities to stimuli and have
different probabilities of encountering and responding to them. A
fascinating window into self-organizing regulatory networks of
honey bees, The Spirit of the Hive applies genomics, evolution, and
behavior to elucidate the details of social structure and advance
our understanding of complex adaptive systems in nature.
This book's focus is on the European side of his father's line in
England and maybe France, while his mother's side is from France
and Germany, and not discussed very much. Most of the content is
from documents mostly in the County Suffolk, England area and the
book begins with the history of this PAGE line in Normandy, France
area around the year 900 to the arrival of PAGE Family "C" in
Virginia in the middle 1600's. He published CAROLINA PAGE's in 1990
which was about his PAGE line that arrived in Virginia in middle
1600's as they moved to North Carolina, then South Carolina, then
Georgia, then Florida where he was born. Since DNA arrived on the
scene in early 2000, much of the paper trail has been verified. DNA
has provided about 15 different PAGE lines and around 44
individuals most of which have the surname PAGE in the PAGE Line
"C." Photographs are provided of the many English houses that the
PAGE family lived in beginning in early 1400 to date.
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