By Robert E. Page Jr.,Bert Hölldobler

ISBN-10: 0674073029

ISBN-13: 9780674073029

How can 40,000 bees operating in the dead of night, by way of intuition by myself, build a honey comb? Synthesizing a long time of experiments, The Spirit of the Hive offers the genetic and physiological mechanisms underlying the department of work in honey bee colonies and explains the way it is an inevitable fabricated from crew residing, evolving over thousands of years.

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