Explore the Fascinating World of Ants with Edward O. Wilson's 'Tales from the Ant World'

Joana Fernandes: Muito bom para quem gosta da área

Spain on Oct 27, 2021

Cymro: I've always bought every book about ants. They have been a lifelong interest for me. EO Wilson is something of a hero but this book is a bit lightweight, containing little i haven't read before. Maybe, if you are just acquiring an interest in ants or this is the first book by EO Wilson you have come across it would be fresh and inviting so I have added one more star than perhaps I would have.

United Kingdom on Jul 29, 2021

Debashis Das: A fantastic world I have been taken into by Wilson's fantastic take on the unknown world of the ants. Actually I come to know about this book quite accidentally when I had been browsing through the Amazon in search of a book. From the description provided by the Amazon I got interested as I took it something different from the books I read so far.I always try to add variety into my reading. I don't stick to one formula and to one genre of books. Ants we always step on or ignore. We don't take into account the beautiful world of ants. We always forget that like human being they are also social with a close-knit family of their own . Their familial instinct is deep-rooted. Wilson in an engaging and easy language unfolds before us many facts that we know before. For a common readers like me with no specialization for ants the book is a wonder .

India on Jun 04, 2021

jamie: Nice

United Kingdom on Mar 04, 2021

Larry David Wilson: Dr. Edward O. Wilson has been a mentor of mine since I read his first book, The Theory of Island Biogeography (first released in 1967, with a new edition now available as of 2001). When that book was released, I was in my last year of graduate school, one year away from my doctorate in herpetology, and at the beginning of my 50+ year career of work on the herpetofauna of Mexico and Central America. Through his remarkable and unprecedented career in biology, Dr. Wilson’s books came in a steady stream of epic efforts to look at the big picture regarding the animals on which he chose to focus, i.e., the ants, and their social makeup, as well as what he learned about the evolutionary history of human society. He has invented whole new fields of biological endeavor, through such books as Sociobiology: The New Synthesis that have provided an entirely new framework for understanding the evolutionary origins of social behavior, including that of our own species. At that time (1975), I was a few years into my teaching career at Miami-Dade College (MDC, then Miami-Dade Community College). Only three years later (1978), a monumental study of our species called On Human Nature, brought Dr....

United States on Dec 04, 2020

Sydney Williams: Sydney M. Williams

October 27, 2020

“The love of nature is a form of religion, and naturalists serve as its clergy.”
Edward O. Wilson (1929-)
Tales from the Ant World, 2020

Wandering along paths through the fields and woods where we live, I am more of a flaneur than a naturalist. I agree with Henry David Thoreau: “All nature is doing her best each moment to make us well – she exists for no other end.” My mind wanders in sync with my feet. I witness a bird and its nest, watch a turtle eyeing me, gaze at a tree in full bloom, look down at an ant hustling along with purpose.

Edward O. Wilson, born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1929, is professor emeritus at Harvard where he specialized in myrmecology for the past sixty-eight years. This is his thirty-fifth book, two of which have won Pulitzer prizes, four of which I have read.

Professor Wilson concludes this one at the beginning. “Where did ants originate? When? And perhaps even, why?” He says they emerged from wasp ancestors during the Cretaceous period, approximately ninety million years ago. But this story begins in Alabama where, as a teenager in Decatur, along the Tennessee...

United States on Oct 27, 2020

P. Salus: If you are not a fan of E.O. Wilson, this volume of brief anecdotes of his decades in the field will be wasted on you. If you have followed Wilson for five decades (as I have), this volume will be a quick read, yet indispensible. I have over two dozen of Wilson's books and have enjoyed them all. These 'tales' are better than Wilson's novel (Anthill).

Canada on Sep 21, 2020