The Insect Societies

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View a collection of videos on Professor Wilson entitled "On the Relation of Science and the Humanities" This book is a work of major importance for the development of environmental and behavioral biology; it covers the classification evolution anatomy physiology and behavior of the higher social insects--ants social wasps and bees and termites. Mr. Wilson reinterprets the knowledge of these insects through the concepts of modern biology from biochemistry to evolutionary theory and population ecology.