The Spirit of the Hive: The Mechanisms of Social Evolution

by Bert Hölldobler (Author), RobertE.Page (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2013

  $64.41

  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.