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Myrmecology (/ m ɜːr m ɪ ˈ k ɒ l ə dʒ i /; from Greek: μύρμηξ, myrmex, "ant" and λόγος, logos, "study") is a branch of entomology focusing on the study of ants. Ants continue to be a model of choice for the study of questions on the evolution of social systems because of their complex and varied forms of social organization.
Wilson, along with Bert Hölldobler, carried out a systematic study of ants and ant behavior, [67] culminating in the 1990 encyclopedic work The Ants. Because much self-sacrificing behavior on the part of individual ants can be explained on the basis of their genetic interests in the survival of the sisters, with whom they share 75% of their ...
Myrmecologists are people who study ants. Pages in category "Myrmecologists" The following 42 pages are in this category, out of 42 total.
Mark Moffett (born 7 January 1958) is an American tropical biologist who studies the ecology of tropical forest canopies and the social behavior of animals (especially ants) and humans. He is also the author of several popular science books and is noted for his macrophotography documenting ant biology. [1]
These genes decide how the animal forages for food, and how much benefit the partner plants received. When these genes were activated, the ants recruit more workers to attack herbivores, which ultimately protects plans. [11] [12] In 2019, Frederickson returned to Harvard University as a medical fellow in the Harvard Radcliffe Institute.
The following is a list of entomologists, scientists who study insects. Name Born Died Country Speciality Ref. A: Lajos Abafi: 1840: 1909: Hungary: Lepidoptera: John ...
Most organisms forage, hunt, or use photosynthesis to get food, but around 50 million years ago — long before humans were around — ants began cultivating and growing their own food.
Berthold Karl Hölldobler BVO (born 25 June 1936) is a German zoologist, sociobiologist and evolutionary biologist who studies evolution and social organization in ants. He is the author of several books, including The Ants, for which he and his co-author, E. O. Wilson, received the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction writing in 1991.