The Ants

The Ants

"The Ants" is a Pulitzer Prize-winning book, written in 1990, by E. O. Wilson and Bert Hölldobler. It was a winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1991.

This book is primarily aimed at academics as a reference work, detailing the anatomy, physiology, social organization, ecology, and natural history of ants. An account of some of their most interesting findings, popularized for the layman, can be found in their 1994 book "Journey to the Ants".

Editions

* Hardcover edition on Springer-Verlag, released March 1990: ISBN 3-540-52092-9
* Belknap Press [http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/HOLANT.html edition] : ISBN 0-674-04075-9

External links

* [http://dannyreviews.com/h/Ants.html/ Review: "The only professional science work to have won a Pulitzer Prize -- for general nonfiction in 1991 -- The Ants"]


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