Nature Revealed: Selected Writings, 1949-2006

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Contents
Preface
PART I. ANTS AND SOCIOBIOLOGY
	1. Richteri, the fire ant
	2. Variation and adaptation in the imported fire ant
	3. The origin and evolution of polymorphism in ants
	4. Quantitative studies of liquid food transmission in ants
	5. The beginnings of nomadic and group-predatory behavior in the ponerine ants
	6. Source and possible nature of the odor trail of fire ants
	7. Chemical communication among workers of the fire ant
	8. Pheromones
	9. The first Mesozoic ants
	10. The ergonomics of caste in the social insects
	11. The prospect for a unified sociobiology
	12. Slavery in ants
	13. Sociobiology: the new synthesis
	14. Sociobiology at century\'s end
	15. Human decency is animal
	16. Behavioral discretization and the number of castes in an ant species
	17. The organization of colony defense in the ant Pheidole dentata Mayr
	18. The number of queens: an important trait in ant evolution
	19. The ethical implications of human sociobiology
	20. Caste and division oflabor in leaf-cutter ants
	21. Precis of Genes, Mind, and Culture
	22. The relation between caste ratios and division of labor in the ant genus Pheidole
	23. The sociogenesis of insect colonies
	24. Between-caste aversion as a basis for division oflabor in the ant Pheidole pubiventris
	25. The earliest known ants: an analysis of the Cretaceous species and an inference concerning their social organization
	26. The dominance of social insects
	27. The effects of complex social life on evolution and biodiversity
	28. Pheidole nasutoides, a new species of Costa Rican ant that apparently mimics termites
	29. In memory of William Louis Brown
	30. Ant plagues: a centuries-old mystery solved
PART II. BIODIVERSITY STUDIES: SYSTEMATICS AND BIOGEOGRAPHY
	31. The subspecies concept and its taxonomic application
	32. Character displacement
	33. Patchy distributions of ant species in New Guinea rain forests
	34. The nature of the taxon cycle in the Melanesian ant fauna
	35. An equilibrium theory of island biogeography
	36. A consistency test for phylogenies based on contemporaneous species
	37. The challenge from related species
	38. An estimate of the potential evolutionary increase in species density in the Polynesian ant fauna
	39. The species equilibrium
	40. The plight of taxonomy
	41. The biogeography of the West Indian ants
	42. Editor\'s foreword (from Biodiversity)
	43. The current state of biological diversity
	44. Threats to biodiversity
	45. The high frontier
	46. The origins of hyperdiversity
	47. A global biodiversity map
	48. On the future of conservation biology
	49. The encyclopedia oflife
	50. Taxonomy as a fundamental discipline
PART Ill. CONSERVATION AND THE HUMAN CONDITION
	51. The conservation of life
	52. Applied biogcography
	53. Resolutions for the 80s
	54. The biological diversity crisis: a challenge to science
	55. Outcry from a world of wounds
	56. The little things that run the world
	57. The coming pluralization of biology and the stewardship of systematics
	58. Biophilia and the conservation ethic
	59. Is humanity suicidal?
	60. Consilience among the great branches of learning
	61. Integrated science and the coming century of the environment
Appendix: The Published Works of Edward O. Wilson
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