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-Really cool. . . . With incredible pics from Alex Wild. . . . Definitely worth checking out.---Jonathan Eisen, University of California, Davis -Tree of Life -

Really cool. . . . With incredible pics from Alex Wild. . . . Definitely worth checking out. --Jonathan Eisen, University of California, Davis Tree of Life

Ant genetics and reproduction are complex topics, but Spicer Rice makes it easy to understand with minimal jargon. The species descriptions seem like stories about eccentric and entertaining relatives, rather than ants. --Gwen Pearson WIRED Really cool. . . . With incredible pics from Alex Wild. . . . Definitely worth checking out. --Jonathan Eisen, University of California, Davis Tree of Life An elegant little book. Spicer Rice's style is clear, fluid, and engaging. (I'm fond of the way she described winnow ants as 'rusty ballerinas.') What makes it especially lovely is the abundance of photographs by Alex Wild, the Ansel Adams of arthropods. I heartily recommend it to anyone who wants to appreciate the miniature beauty and complexity of ants. And I hope that Dr. Eleanor's Book of Common Ants inspires other citizen science projects. --Carl Zimmer National Geographic's The Loom

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Eleanor Spicer Rice (www.verdantword.com) is an entomologist and writer. Alex Wild (www.alexanderwild.com) is a wildlife photographer and curator of entomology at the University of Texas, Austin. Rob Dunn is a biologist and writer at North Carolina State University. He is the author of Every Living Thing: Man's Obsessive Quest to Catalog Life, from Nanobacteria to New Monkeys, The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today, and The Man Who Touched His Own Heart: True Tales of Science, Surgery, and Mystery.

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