Caste and Ecology In Social Insects

Name: Caste and Ecology In Social Insects
Brand: Princeton University Press
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hardcover – January 1, 1978

by Oster, George F. & Edward O. Wilson

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ISBN-13: 9786001187100 ISBN-10: 600118710X

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Binding

hardcover

Published

January 1, 1978

Weight

1.3 lbs

Dimensions

2.50×14.60×22.20 cm

About this book

Caste and Ecology In Social Insects by Oster, George F. & Edward O. Wilson. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9786001187100.

In this pathbreaking and far-reaching work George Oster and Edward Wilson provdie the first fully developed theory of caste evolution amond the social insects. Furthermore, in studying the effects of natural selection in generally increasing the insects ergonomic eficiency, they go beyond the concentration of previous researchers on the physiological mechanisms of the insects and turn our attention instread to the scale and effeciency of the insects division of labor.