Preface 1. The Dominance of Ants 2. For the Love of Ants 3. The Life and Death of the Colony 4. How Ants Communicate 5. War and Foreign Policy 6. The Ur-Ants 7. Conflict and Dominance 8. The Origin of Cooperation 9. The Superorganism 10. Social Parasites: Breaking the Code 11. The Trophobionts 12. Army Ants 13. The Strangest Ants 14. How Ants Control Their Environment Epilogue: Who Will Survive? How to Study Ants Acknowledgments Index
Bert Hölldobler is the Robert A. Johnson Professor in Social Insect Research at Arizona State University. He was previously Professor of Biology and Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology at Harvard University and subsequently held the chair for Behavioral Physiology and Sociobiology at the University of Würzburg, Germany. He is an elected member of many academies, including the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the US National Academy of Sciences, and the German National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina. He has received many awards, among them the Pulitzer Prize for The Ants, coauthored with E. O. Wilson. Edward O. Wilson was Pellegrino University Professor, Emeritus, at Harvard University. In addition to two Pulitzer Prizes (one of which he shares with Bert Hölldobler), Wilson has won many scientific awards, including the National Medal of Science and the Crafoord Prize of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
Beautifully written and illustrated...These fifteen chapters are a
bustling but well-organized ant heap, full of wonders natural and
intellectual.
*Scientific American*
Everyone should read Journey to the Ants; it is a book to read
right through; I have done so twice so far. It brings back the joy
of science and restores the sense of wonder, it is truly food for
thought. For me it is a beloved book that will stay at my
bedside.
*Times Higher Education Supplement*
Hölldobler and Wilson have carefully distilled more than 80 years
of their combined personal research and thorough knowledge of the
literature to produce a book that is both packed with ideas and
information and a joy to read. The authors subtitled their book 'A
Story of Scientific Exploration' and, like all good stories, it has
a logical progression and sensible themes and is hard to put
down.
*American Scientist*
Beautifully written and illustrated...These fifteen chapters are a
bustling but well-organized ant heap, full of wonders natural and
intellectual. -- Philip Morrison * Scientific American *
Everyone should read Journey to the Ants; it is a book to
read right through; I have done so twice so far. It brings back the
joy of science and restores the sense of wonder, it is truly food
for thought. For me it is a beloved book that will stay at my
bedside. -- James E. Lovelock * Times Higher Education Supplement
*
Hoelldobler and Wilson have carefully distilled more than 80 years
of their combined personal research and thorough knowledge of the
literature to produce a book that is both packed with ideas and
information and a joy to read. The authors subtitled their book 'A
Story of Scientific Exploration' and, like all good stories, it has
a logical progression and sensible themes and is hard to put down.
-- C. Ronald Carroll * American Scientist *
This intriguing account of inquiry into the realm of ants is written by two giants in the arena of ant research whose own studies have helped mold our views of ant communication and social structure. Authors of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Ants (Belknap Pr: Harvard Univ. Pr., 1990), Hölldobler and Wilson present ants and those who study them in a skillful blend of natural lore, autobiography, and history. It's all here: their earliest encounters with ants; the excitement of scientific pursuit; the chance discovery, by a couple in New Jersey, of Sphecomyrma, the fossil form linking ants and wasps; the race to rediscover the long-lost Nothomyrmecia, the most primitive living ant; the intricacy of ant societies and their regulation by complex chemical and tactile communication; and army ants, weaver ants, snapping ants, and slave-making ants. For millions of years ant activities have guided the evolution of other living things, and they remain an omnipresent force. For all natural history collections. [See also Wilson's Naturalist, reviewed on p. 192, and the profile of Wilson on p. 210.-Ed.]-Annette Aiello, Smithsonian Tropical Research Inst., Panama
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