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Paul Davies Professor of Natural Philosophy, University of Adelaide, Australia, author of About Time and The Fifth Miracle I love this book. Ant colonies are an intrinsically fascinating topic, and Deborah Gordon is a superb storyteller. This is deeply intriguing science related in an engaging and visualizable way. Deborah Gordon is set to become the Jane Goodall of entomology. Frans de Waal Emory University, author of Good Natured and Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape Gord on takes the reader along to her field station, where she is trying to figure out, via ingenious experiments, how individual actions add up to a perfectly managed whole. Gene E. Robinson Department of Entomology, University of Illionols A unique and important book....It reads like a fine memoir; warm, reflective, humble, with timely injections of wry wit. Sir Robert May Chief Science Officer for the United Kingdom Ants at Work shows how ant colonies operate so successfully with no managers of business schools, and it also gives an almost magical insight into the evolution and ecology of a group of highly successful animals. Outstandingly good. R. C. LeWontin Professor of Zoology and Professor of Biology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University An extraordinary work, Gordon completely revolutionizes the standard view of the structure and function of social organization in ants. It shows that ant colonies have a much more complex and subtle history both at the level of individuals and of colonies than was previously imagined. This is a completely new view of these social insects. Extremely will written and accessible to anyone interested in general scientific questions. Murray Gell-Mann Nobel Laureate, Santa Fe Institute, member of the President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology, author of The Quark and the Jaguar Deboran Gordon's book is very hard to put down. She gives a delightful account of the colonies of one species of ant, but she also illuminates deep issues about emergent behavior in social insects and poses fascinating questions about its evolution.

Frans de Waal Emory University, author of Good Natured and Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape Gord on takes the reader along to her field station, where she is trying to figure out, via ingenious experiments, how individual actions add up to a perfectly managed whole. Gene E. Robinson Department of Entomology, University of Illionols A unique and important book....It reads like a fine memoir; warm, reflective, humble, with timely injections of wry wit. Murray Gell-Mann Nobel Laureate, Santa Fe Institute, member of the President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology, author of The Quark and the Jaguar Deboran Gordon's book is very hard to put down. She gives a delightful account of the colonies of one species of ant, but she also illuminates deep issues about emergent behavior in social insects and poses fascinating questions about its evolution. Paul Davies Professor of Natural Philosophy, University of Adelaide, Australia, author of About Time and The Fifth Miracle I love this book. Ant colonies are an intrinsically fascinating topic, and Deborah Gordon is a superb storyteller. This is deeply intriguing science related in an engaging and visualizable way. Deborah Gordon is set to become the Jane Goodall of entomology. R. C. LeWontin Professor of Zoology and Professor of Biology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University An extraordinary work, Gordon completely revolutionizes the standard view of the structure and function of social organization in ants. It shows that ant colonies have a much more complex and subtle history both at the level of individuals and of colonies than was previously imagined. This is a completely new view of these social insects. Extremely will written and accessible to anyone interested in general scientific questions. Sir Robert May Chief Science Officer for the United Kingdom Ants at Work shows how ant colonies operate so successfully with no managers of business schools, and it also gives an almost magical insight into the evolution and ecology of a group of highly successful animals. Outstandingly good.

Murray Gell-Mann Nobel Laureate, Santa Fe Institute, member of the President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology, author of The Quark and the Jaguar Deboran Gordon's book is very hard to put down. She gives a delightful account of the colonies of one species of ant, but she also illuminates deep issues about emergent behavior in social insects and poses fascinating questions about its evolution.

"Frans de Waal Emory University, author of ""Good Natured"" and ""Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape"" Gord on takes the reader along to her field station, where she is trying to figure out, via ingenious experiments, how individual actions add up to a perfectly managed whole. Gene E. Robinson Department of Entomology, University of Illionols A unique and important book....It reads like a fine memoir; warm, reflective, humble, with timely injections of wry wit. Murray Gell-Mann Nobel Laureate, Santa Fe Institute, member of the President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology, author of ""The Quark and the Jaguar"" Deboran Gordon's book is very hard to put down. She gives a delightful account of the colonies of one species of ant, but she also illuminates deep issues about emergent behavior in social insects and poses fascinating questions about its evolution. Paul Davies Professor of Natural Philosophy, University of Adelaide, Australia, author of ""About Time"" and ""The Fifth Miracle"" I love this book. Ant colonies are an intrinsically fascinating topic, and Deborah Gordon is a superb storyteller. This is deeply intriguing science related in an engaging and visualizable way. Deborah Gordon is set to become the Jane Goodall of entomology. R. C. LeWontin Professor of Zoology and Professor of Biology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University An extraordinary work, Gordon completely revolutionizes the standard view of the structure and function of social organization in ants. It shows that ant colonies have a much more complex and subtle history both at the level of individuals and of colonies than was previously imagined. This is a completely new view of these social insects. Extremely will written and accessible to anyone interested in general scientific questions. Sir Robert May Chief Science Officer for the United Kingdom ""Ants at Work"" shows how ant colonies operate so successfully with no managers of business schools, and it also gives an almost magical insight into the evolution and ecology of a group of highly successful animals. Outstandingly good."

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Deborah M. Gordon, Ph.D., studied at Oberlin College, Stanford University, and Duke University, and researched at Harvard University and the University of Oxford before joining the faculty at Stanford, where she is Associate Professor of Biological Sciences. She lives in Redwood City, California.

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