Ants at Work: An Engaging Vacation from Scientific Reality.(Review) (book review)

Ants at Work: by what means an Insect Society is Organized. Deborah M Gordon. 208 pp The delivered Press. 1999. $25.

Because the basic unit of scientific communication, the primary research paper, is short and specific, volumes remain important in science. The writer of a scientific volume can synthesize a body of reported knowledge into a broader, more meaningful presentation. In Ants at Work, Deborah Gordon assembles the bits and pieces of knowledge generated above 15 years of studying the r harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex barbatus, to build a synopsis of her scientific work.

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