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Harvard Book Store Presents...
W W Norton
Price: $55.00
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E.O. WILSON and BERT HÖLLDOBLER
discuss The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies
a conversation
moderated by Allan Coukell
$5 tickets on sale now.
Harvard Book Store is delighted to welcome Pulitzer Prize-winning authors E.O. WILSON and BERT HÖLLDOBLER for a discussion of their newly co-authored study, The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies. The evening's conversation will be moderated by award-winning journalist ALLAN COUKELL. Coming eighteen years after the publication of Wilson and Hoelldobler's The Ants, this new volume expands our knowledge of the social insects (among them, ants, bees, wasps, and termites) and is based on remarkable research conducted mostly within the last two decades. These superorganisms—a tightly knit colony of individuals, formed by altruistic cooperation, complex communication, and division of labor—represent one of the basic stages of biological organization, midway between the organism and the entire species. The study of the superorganism, as the authors demonstrate, has led to important advances in our understanding of how the transitions between such levels have occurred in evolution and how life as a whole has progressed from simple to complex forms. Ultimately, this book provides a deep look into a part of the living world hitherto glimpsed by only a very few.
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Thursday, November 20th |
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7:00 PM |
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First Parish Church Meetinghouse
On the corner of Mass. Ave. and Church St.
Cambridge |
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$5 tickets can be purchased at Harvard Book Store and over the phone with a credit card (617.661.1515). |
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Edward O. Wilson
grew up in south Alabama and the Florida Panhandle, where he spent his
boyhood exploring the region’s forests and swamps, collecting snakes,
butterflies, and ants—the latter to become his lifelong specialty. Regarded as one of the world’s preeminent biologists and naturalists, he is the
author of more than twenty books, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Ants and The Naturalist as well as his first novel Anthill, Wilson, a professor at Harvard, makes his home in Lexington, Massachusetts.
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Bert Hölldobler is Foundation Professor at Arizona State University and the recipient of numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize and the Leibniz Prize. He lives in Arizona and Germany.
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Allan Coukell is the former health and science reporter at WBUR in Boston. He formerly hosted "Eureka!", a weekly science program on Radio New Zealand. He's reported from many corners of the world—from Mongolia to Antarctica, filing stories for NPR, the New York Times and The Economist, among others. He is a pharmacist by training and is now Director of Policy for the Prescription Project, a non-profit based in Boston.
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