| Description |
xiv, 226 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword / by Bert Hölldobler -- What Is the Spirit of the Hive? -- Individual Variation in Behavior -- The Evolution of Polyandry -- Phenotypic Architecture of Pollen Hoarding -- Genetic Architecture of Pollen Hoarding -- Reproductive Regulation of Division of Labor -- Developmental Regulation of Reproduction -- The Regulatory Architecture of Pollen Hoarding -- A Crowd of Bees |
| Summary |
How can 40,000 bees working in the dark, by instinct alone, construct a honey comb? Synthesizing decades of experiments, The Spirit of the Hive presents the genetic and physiological mechanisms underlying the division of labor in honey bee colonies and explains how it is an inevitable product of group living, evolving over millions of years |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Beehives.
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Honeybee -- Behavior.
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Honeybee -- Evolution.
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Honeybee -- Genetics.
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Insect societies.
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Pollen.
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Self-organizing systems.
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Social evolution in animals.
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| Author |
Hölldobler, Bert, 1936- author of introduction, etc
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| LC no. |
2012044923 |
| ISBN |
9780674073029 (hbk.) |
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