L'incroyable instinct des fourmis
de la culture du champignon à la civilisation
by Bert Hölldobler and Edward Osborne Wilson
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Parmi toutes les espèces de fourmis, il en est une qui, durant des centaines de millions d'années, a connu un extraordinaire succès évolutif : les fourmis coupeuses de feuilles, à l'origine des premières « sociétés agricoles », et ce bien avant l'homme de l'époque néolithique. S'appuyant sur une très riche iconographie et sur les études les plus récentes, ce livre décrit l'éclosion et le développement de leur exceptionnelle civilisation instinctuelle : communication, coopération, division du travail, mutualisme, défense, solidarité, hiérarchie, sacrifice, hygiène... Ces fourmis d'Amérique tropicale, dont les colonies jouent un rôle fondamental dans l'écologie des forêts, des savanes et des prairies, sont le plus remarquable de tous les superorganismes jamais découverts. Des vols nuptiaux au décès de la reine, du travail de ses millions de descendantes à la culture de leur champignon nourricier, du chef-d'oeuvre architectural de leur nid au million de neurones de leur cerveau formidablement structuré, tout chez ces fourmis champignonnistes provoque l'émerveillement.
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Leaf-cutting ants, Ants| Edition | Availability |
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L'incroyable instinct des fourmis: de la culture du champignon à la civilisation
2012, Flammarion
paperback
in French
2081270439 9782081270435
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The Leafcutter Ants: Civilization by Instinct
2010, W. W. Norton, W.W. Norton
paperback
in English
- 1st ed.
0393338681 9780393338683
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French translation of the 1st Englidh edition
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning authors of The Ants comes this dynamic and visually spectacular portrait of Earth's ultimate superorganism.
The Leafcutter Ants is the most detailed and authoritative description of any ant species ever produced. With a text suitable for both a lay and a scientific audience, the book provides an unforgettable tour of Earth's most evolved animal societies. Each colony of leafcutters contains as many as five million workers, all the daughters of a single queen that can live over a decade. A gigantic nest can stretch thirty feet across, rise five feet or more above the ground, and consist of hundreds of chambers that reach twenty-five feet below the ground surface. Indeed, the leafcutters have parlayed their instinctive civilization into a virtual domination of forest, grassland, and cropland—from Louisiana to Patagonia. Inspired by a section of the authors' acclaimed The Superorganism, this brilliantly illustrated work provides the ultimate explanation of what a social order with a half-billion years of animal evolution has achieved. Four-color throughout, 56 photographs
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| October 30, 2022 | Edited by ImportBot | import existing book |
| September 15, 2014 | Edited by contulmmiv | Added French translation edition |
| September 15, 2014 | Edited by contulmmiv | Added new cover |
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