Kingdom of ants : José Celestino Mutis and the dawn of natural history in the New World / Edward O. Wilson and José M. Gómez Durán.
Pubblicazione:
Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins university press, c2010.
Descrizione fisica:
VIII, 95 p. : ill., ritr. ; 23 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Prologue. 1. Who was Mutis? 2. The making of an eighteenth-century naturalist 3. The scientific contributions of José Celestino Mutis 4. Mutis seeks advice 5. Mutis begins his study of ants 6. Ants are transported by ships 7. Ant plants and plant ants 8. Mutis learns about the mule-train (leafcutter) ants 9. Unending struggles against the mule-train ants 10. Ant wars 11. Mutis solves the mystery of the nomadic pataloas 12. Mutis measures the size of an army-ant colony 13. Mutis tracks the armies of ants 14. Mutis studies the gender of ants and makes an amazing discovery 15. Mutis' other ants 16. How good a scientist was Mutis?. Epilogue. Acknowledgments
