完美的群体组织运作是怎样的？自然通过切叶蚁组成的超个体社会让我们看到了完美的组织运作。 当个体进化达到其物种极限时，顽强的生命会转而在社会组织方式上继续进化出生存优势。 社会性蚂蚁正是此类进化中的佼佼者。当它们作为一个群落时，蚁群不仅是个体的集合，而是共同组成了一种被称为超个体的集群有机体。 本书讲述了社会性蚂蚁中的南美切叶蚁进化出的一种建立在利他主义合作、复杂的交流和劳动分工基础上的超个体集群。在超个体中，个体如同复杂有机体的细胞一样各司其职，实现了单个个体累加不能实现的生存竞争力。
The Leafcutter Ants is the most detailed and authoritative description of any ant species ever produced. With a text suitable for both a lay and a scientific audience, the book provides an unforgettable tour of Earth’s most evolved animal societies. Each colony of leafcutters contains as many as five million workers, all the daughters of a single queen that can live over a decade. A gigantic nest can stretch thirty feet across, rise five feet or more above the ground, and consist of hundreds of chambers that reach twenty-five feet below the ground surface. Indeed, the leafcutters have parlayed their instinctive civilization into a virtual domination of forest, grassland, and cropland—from Louisiana to Patagonia. Inspired by a section of the authors’ acclaimed The Superorganism, this brilliantly illustrated work provides the ultimate explanation of what a social order with a half-billion years of animal evolution has achieved.
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