Download or read book Social Life Among the Insects written by William Morton Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Evolution of Social Behavior in Insects and Arachnids written by Jae C. Choe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Social' insects and arachnids exhibit complex forms of behavior that involve cooperation in building a nest, defending against attackers or rearing offspring. This book is a comprehensive, up-to-date guide to sociality and its evolution in a wide range of taxa.
Download or read book Information Processing in Social Insects written by Claire Detrain and published by Birkhäuser. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claire Detrain, Jean-Louis Deneubourg and Jacques Pasteels Studies on insects have been pioneering in major fields of modern biology. In the 1970 s, research on pheromonal communication in insects gave birth to the dis cipline of chemical ecology and provided a scientific frame to extend this approach to other animal groups. In the 1980 s, the theory of kin selection, which was initially formulated by Hamilton to explain the rise of eusociality in insects, exploded into a field of research on its own and found applications in the under standing of community structures including vertebrate ones. In the same manner, recent studies, which decipher the collective behaviour of insect societies, might be now setting the stage for the elucidation of information processing in animals. Classically, problem solving is assumed to rely on the knowledge of a central unit which must take decisions and collect all pertinent information. However, an alternative method is extensively used in nature: problems can be collectively solved through the behaviour of individuals, which interact with each other and with the environment. The management of information, which is a major issue of animal behaviour, is interesting to study in a social life context, as it raises addi tional questions about conflict-cooperation trade-oft's. Insect societies have proven particularly open to experimental analysis: one can easily assemble or disassemble them and place them in controllable situations in the laboratory.
Download or read book Social Life Among the Insects written by William Morton Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Social Life Among the Insects written by William M. Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Social Life Among the Insects written by William Morton Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Social Life in the Insect World written by Jean-Henri Fabre and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Social Life in the Insect World written by Jean-Henri Fabre and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Other Insect Societies written by James T. Costa and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2006-09-30 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his exploration of insect societies that don't fit the eusocial schema, James T. Costa gives these interesting phenomena their due. He synthesizes the scattered literature about social phenomena across the arthropod phylum: beetles and bugs, caterpillars and cockroaches, mantids and membracids, sawflies and spiders.
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Social Insects written by Christopher K. Starr and published by Springer. This book was released on 2021-01-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, multi-author treatise on the social insects of the world, with some auxiliary attention to such adjacent topics as subsocial insects and social arachnids. The work is to serve as a very convenient, yet authoritative reference work on the biology and systematics of social insects of the world. This is a project of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects (IUSSI), the worldwide organizing body for the scientific study of social insects.
Download or read book Comparative Social Evolution written by Dustin R. Rubenstein and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-24 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Darwin famously described special difficulties in explaining social evolution in insects. More than a century later, the evolution of sociality - defined broadly as cooperative group living - remains one of the most intriguing problems in biology. Providing a unique perspective on the study of social evolution, this volume synthesizes the features of animal social life across the principle taxonomic groups in which sociality has evolved. The chapters explore sociality in a range of species, from ants to primates, highlighting key natural and life history data and providing a comparative view across animal societies. In establishing a single framework for a common, trait-based approach towards social synthesis, this volume will enable graduate students and investigators new to the field to systematically compare taxonomic groups and reinvigorate comparative approaches to studying animal social evolution.
Download or read book Parasites in Social Insects written by Paul Schmid-Hempel and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1998-11-22 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In addition, the author develops new insights, especially in his examination of the intricate relationships between parasites and their social hosts through the rigorous use of evolutionary and ecological concepts.".
Download or read book Social Life in the Insect World written by Jean-Henri Fabre and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Social Life in the Insect World written by Jean-Henri Fabre and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Social Life Among the Insects written by William Morton Wheeler and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Social Life Among the Insects: Being a Series of Lectures Delivered at the Lowell Institute in Boston in March 1922 Structure, Development and Behavior, Columbia Uni versity Press, 1910, with the addition of certain facts and considerations in which I have been interested during more recent years. As an aid to the reader who may care to extend his studies of the social insects, I have added a documentary appendix, containing considerable bibliography and several notes on special topics which could not be adequately treated in the lectures. Since I have published a rather voluminous list of the ant-literature up to 1908 in the volume above mentioned, the bibliography of the third and fourth lectures is mainly restricted to a selection from the more recent literature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Social Life in the Insect World written by J. H. Fabre and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
