Nature Revealed - Selected writings 1949-2006

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Table of contents. Richteri the fire ant (fire ant, Solenopsis, Alabama) p. 3; Variation and adaptation in the imported fire ant (fire ant, Argentine ant, Solenopsis) p. 6; The origin and evolution of polymorphism in ants (allometry, monomorphic, Myrmicinae) p. 19; Quantitative studies of liquid food transmission in ants (E.O. Wilson, myrmicine, Pogonomyrmex) p. 42; The beginnings of nomadic and group predatory behavior in the ponerine ants (Dorylinae, Eciton, E. O. Wilson) p. 53; Source and possible nature of the odor trail of fire ants (ommochromes, pheromone, hind-gut, more ») p. 62; Chemical communication among workers of the fire ant Solenopsis saevissima Fr Smith I The organization of massforaging (pheromone, myrmicine, sucrose) p. 66; Pheromones (bombykol, waggle dance, chemical communication) p. 82; The first Mesozoic ants (Cretaceous, metapleural gland, Eocene) p. 94; The ergonomics of caste in the social insects (virgin queens, genotype, linear programming) p. 98; The prospect for a unified sociobiology (sociobiology, vertebrates, army ant) p. 125; Slavery in ants (Amazon ants, Polyergus, Leptothorax duloticus) p. 130; the new synthesis (Sociobiology, hunter-gatherer, primates) p. 136; Sociobiology at centurys end (Biophilia, epigenetic, consilience) p. 166; Human decency is animal (sociobiology, altruism, kin selection) p. 171; Behavioral discretization and the number of castes in an ant species (eclosion, pupae, eusocial) p. 178; The organization of colony defense in the ant Pheidole dentata (Insectes, Harvard, Cambridge) p. 193; Mayr (forceps, minor workers, Solenopsis fugax) p. 194; an important trait in ant evolution (polygyny, monogyny, Myrmecocystus) p. 214; The ethical implications of human sociobiology (human sociobiology, ethology, Hastings Center) p. 223; Caste and division of labor in leafcutter ants (E.O. Wilson, rhododendron, leaf-cutter ants) p. 227; Precis of Genes Mind and Culture (gene-culture coevolution, epigenesis, culturgens) p. 237; The relation between caste ratios and division of labor in the ant genus Pheidole (Esteio, major workers, ergonomic) p. 275; The sociogenesis of insect colonies (C. D. Michener, sociogenesis, leafcutter ant) p. 286; Betweencaste aversion as a basis for division of labor in the ant Pheidole pubiventris (division of labor, antennal, Behavioral Ecology) p. 294; an analysis of the Cretaceous species and an inference concerning their social organization (Cretaceous, eusocial, Tiphiidae) p. 298; The dominance of social insects (carabid, biomass, endemic) p. 309; The effects of complex social life on evolution and biodiversity (clade, Adaptive radiation, social mammals) p. 323; Pheidole nasutoides a new species of Costa Rican ant that apparently mimics termites (holotype, mesothorax, hypostomal) p. 330; In memory of William Louis Brown (Bill Brown, Costa Rica, Australia) p. 339; a centuriesold mystery solved(Lesser Antilles, Myrmicinae, tropical fire ant) p. 343; Systematics and Biogeography () p. 351; The subspecies concept and its taxonomic application (subspecies, allopatric, trinomens) p. 353; Character displacement (character displacement, metallica, sympatric) p. 370; Patchy distributions of ant species in New Guinea rain forests (Leptomyrmex, rain forest, leaf mold) p. 387; The nature of the taxon cycle in the Melanesian ant fauna (Melanesia, Fiji, taxa) p. 401; An equilibrium theory of island biogeography (Zoogeography, propagules, Krakatau) p. 427; A consistency test for phylogenies based on contemporaneous species (taxon, cladistic, Aenictus) p. 443; The challenge from related species (gene flow, character displacement, heterozygote) p. 451; An estimate of the potential evolutionary increase in species density in the Polynesian ant fauna (Upolu, Polynesia, Savai'i) p. 473; The species equilibrium (Florida Keys, Upolu, population densities) p. 484; The plight of taxonomy (taxonomists, National Science Foundation, ecology) p. 495; The biogeography of the West Indian ants (Greater Antilles, Neivamyrmex, Dominican amber) p. 497; Editors foreword from Biodiversity () p. 515; Threats to biodiversity (Conservation Biology, Scientific American, Tongass National Forest) p. 535; The high frontier (epiphytes, elaiosomes, National Geographic) p. 543; The origins of hyperdiversity (plesiomorphic, apomorphic, Chrysomeloidea) p. 574; A global biodiversity map () p. 582; Part in Conservation and the Human Condition 51 The conservation of life (island biogeography, packing problem, Panama Isthmus) p. 595; Applied biogeography (Kaingaroa Forest, Barred forest-falcon, Black-faced antthrush) p. 603; Resolutions for the 80s (Harvard Magazine, ecosystems, species diversity) p. 617; a challenge to science (biological diversity, entomologists, taxonomic) p. 619; Outcry from a world of wounds (Ecologists, Third World, nutrients) p. 630; The little things that run the world (invertebrates, vertebrates, ecosys) p. 634; The coming pluralization of biology and the stewardship of systematics (ecosys, bacterium, Systematists) p. 638; Biophilia and the conservation ethic (biophilia hypothesis, Conservation Ethic, Gene-culture coevolution) p. 644; Is humanity suicidal? (E.O. Wilson, el al, ecosystems services) p. 656; Consilience among the great branches of learning (Westermarck effect, gene-culture coevolution, epigenetic) p. 665; Integrated science and the coming century of (Thomas Eisner, Insectes Sociaux, Biodiversity) p. 685; Index p. 715