Caste and Ecology in the Social Insects

by George F. Oster and Edward O. Wilson

Book Overview

In this pathbreaking and far-reaching work George Oster and Edward Wilson provide the first fully developed theory of caste evolution among the social insects. Furthermore, in studying the effects of natural selection in generally increasing the insects' ergonomic efficiency, they go beyond the concentration of previous researchers on the physiological mechanisms of the insects and turn our attention instead to the scale and efficiency of the insects'...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691023611
• ISBN13: 9780691023618
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.4"