Jürgen Tautz: The Buzz about Bees

Cover: 9783540787273 | The Buzz about Bees | Biology of a Superorganism | Jürgen Tautz | Buch

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Beschreibung

Tis book, already translated into ten languages, may at frst sight appear to be just about honeybees and their biology. It c- tains, however, a number of deeper messages related to some of the most basic and important principles of modern biology. Te bees are merely the actors that take us into the realm of phys- ology, genetics, reproduction, biophysics and learning, and that introduce us to the principles of natural selection underlying the evolution of simple to complex life forms. Te book destroys the cute notion of bees as anthropomorphic icons of busy self-sacr -i fcing individuals and presents us with the reality of the colony as an integrated and independent being¿a ¿superorganism¿¿with its own, almost eerie, emergent group intelligence. We are s- prised to learn that no single bee, from queen through drone to sterile worker, has the oversight or control over the colony. - stead, through a network of integrated control systems and fee- backs, and communication between individuals, the colony - rives at consensus decisions from the bottom up through a type of ¿swarm intelligence¿. Indeed, there are remarkable parallels between the functional organization of a swarming honeybee colony and vertebrate brains.

Über den Autor

The author, Jürgen Tautz, is a world-leading scientist with a remarkable number of high class publications and a gifted communicator of science. His writing and popular lectures have twice been honoured by the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) who included him among the best scientists in Europe in communicating science to the public.

A gifted communicator and leading scientist, Juergen Tautz has much in common with Carl Sagan, Richard P Feynman, Konrad Lorenz, Vince Dethier and others famous for their work in popularizing science and making it accessible to all.

Zusammenfassung

With some 230 fascinating high quality colour photographs

Written in an entertaining easily understandable way

The new fundamental bee book following the standard work of Karl von Frisch

The author, Jürgen Tautz, is a world-leading scientist and a gifted communicator of science

Includes supplementary material: [...]

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prolog: The Bee Colony - a Mammal in Many Bodies.- Man's Smallest Domestic Animal - a Picture Guide.- The Inevitable Honeybees.- Propagated Immortality.- Honeybees - a Model for Success.- What Bees Know About Flowers.- Honeybee Sex, and Virgin Brides.- Royal Jelly - Designer Diet in Bee Colonies.- The Largest Organ of the Bee Colony - Construction and Function of the Comb.- Cultivated Intelligence.- Is Honey Thicker than Blood: How Important Is the Family?.- The Circle Closes.- Epilog: The Future for Bees and Mankind.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2008
Genre:	Mathematik , Medizin , Naturwissenschaften , Technik , Technik allg.
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	xiv 284 S. 284 farbige Illustr. 3 farbige Zeichng.
ISBN-13:	9783540787273
ISBN-10:	3540787275
Sprache:	Englisch
Herstellernummer:	12196227
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Tautz, Jürgen
Kamera:	Heilmann, Helga R.
Fotograph:	Heilmann, Helga R.
Illustrator:	Helga R Heilmann
Übersetzung:	Sandeman, David C.
Hersteller:	Springer Berlin Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, juergen.hartmann@springer.com
Maße:	241 x 160 x 18 mm
Von/Mit:	Jürgen Tautz
Erscheinungsdatum:	21.05.2008
Gewicht:	0,671 kg

Artikel-ID: 101831354