Empire of Ants: The Hidden World and Extraordinary Lives of Earth's Tiny Conquerors by Susanne Foitzik

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Empire of Ants: The Hidden World and Extraordinary Lives of Earth's Tiny Conquerors by Susanne Foitzik

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Empire of Ants: The Hidden World and Extraordinary Lives of Earth's Tiny Conquerors by Susanne Foitzik

A world-leading ant researcher's magisterial tour of ants' superhuman, six-legged civilization

Beneath our feet, a fascinating drama unfolds: Ants are waging war and staging rebellions, growing fungi as crops and raising aphids as livestock, making vaccines and, generally, living lives that--up close--look surprisingly human.

Evolutionary biologist Susanne Foitzik and biophysicist Olaf Fritsche reveal all in Empire of Ants, inviting readers to live alongside the workers, soldiers, and conquerors of the insect world--and the researchers who study them. (How do we observe the behavior of ants just a few millimeters in size--or monitor activity in a brain as small as the tip of a needle?)

Ants' global dominance (there are 10 quadrillion ants worldwide) and supreme staying power (they have existed since the dinosaurs) give a sense of scale to our own empire- building and destroying. Empire of Ants may leave its human readers asking: Who really runs the world?

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Dr. Olaf Fritsche, Jahrgang 1967, hat an der Universität Osnabrück Biologie studiert und dort in der Arbeitsgruppe Biophysik zu Konformationsänderungen der ATP-Synthase promoviert. Nach mehreren Jahren als Redakteur bei Spektrum der Wissenschaft arbeitet er nun als freiberuflicher Wissenschaftsjournalist, Dozent und Buchautor. Neben zahlreichen Sachbüchern hat er das Lehrbuch Physik für Biologen und Mediziner geschrieben, das ebenfalls bei Springer Spektrum erschienen ist.

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ISBN 13 9781615197125
ISBN 10 1615197125
Title Empire of Ants: The Hidden World and Extraordinary Lives of Earth's Tiny Conquerors
Author Susanne Foitzik
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher The Experiment
Year published 2021-04-06
Number of pages 352
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.