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020			_a9783540787273 (hbk.) _c€ 39.99
040			_bENG _cIISER-BPR _dIISER-BPR
041			_aENG
082			_a595.799 _bTAU _223rd
100			_aTautz, Jürgen _95410
222			_aBiology
245		4	_aThe buzz about bees : _bBiology of a superorganism
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aHeidelberg: _bSpringer-Verlag, _cc2008.
300			_a284p. : _bill(.col). ; _c22cm.
504			_aIncludes coloured illustrations, references, photographs by Helga R. Heilmann and Subject index.
520			_aThis book, already translated into ten languages, may at first sight appear to be just about honeybees and their biology. It contains, however, a number of deeper messages related to some of the most basic and important principles of modern biology. The bees are merely the actors that take us into the realm of physiology, genetics, reproduction, biophysics, and learning, and that introduce us to the principles of natural selection underlying the evolution of simple to complex life forms. The book destroys the cute notion of bees as anthropomorphic icons of busy self-sacrificing 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 surprised 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 feed-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.
650			_aAnimals _92016
650			_aArthropoda _95411
650			_aInsects _95412
650			_aHexapoda _95413
650			_aHymenoptera _95414
650			_aBees _95415
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999			_c2030 _d2030