ISBN-13
9780691023618
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Publication Date
21 January 1979
Age Range
NA - NA years
Dimensions
21.39 x 13.82 x 2.21 CM
Shipping Weight
0.44 Kg
Pages
372
Language
English
Grade Level
NA - NA
In this pathbreaking and far-reaching work George Oster and Edward Wilson provide the first fully developed theory of caste evolution among the social insects. Furthermore, in studying the effects of natural selection in generally increasing the insects' ergonomic efficiency, they go beyond the concentration of previous researchers on the physiological mechanisms of the insects and turn our attention instead to the scale and efficiency of the insects' division of labor.