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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.

Author photo: by Jon Chase/Harvard 1996

Edward O. Wilson is Pellegrino University Professor 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.

Read More by Edward O. Wilson:

• Sociobiology, Abridged Edition
• Biophilia
• The Diversity of Life, Special Edition
• Journey to the Ants: A Story of Scientific Exploration
• The Diversity of Life
• The Ants
• Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition
• <i>Pheidole</i> in the New World: A Dominant, Hyperdiverse Ant Genus
• For Love of Insects
• On Human Nature, With a new Preface
• The Other Insect Societies, With a Foreword by Bert Hölldobler and a Commentary by Edward O. Wilson
• Hispaniola: A Photographic Journey through Island Biodiversity, Biodiversidad a Través de un Recorrido Fotográfico
• Evolution: The First Four Billion Years
• Organization of Insect Societies: From Genome to Sociocomplexity