As Holldobler and Wilson explain, we were not the first species to make the transition from hunter-gatherer to farmer. The leafcutter ants beat us to it by more than 50 million years, farming fungi ...

Lord's latest book is "Astro Turf: The Private Life of Rocket Science." Ants lack human consciousness. They don’t make decisions, they respond to stimuli -- with a limited number of algorithms at that ...

World-renowned conservationist Wilson (pictured) and acclaimed scientist Holldobler speak about insect societies and sign their new book, The Superorganism in conjunction with ASU’s Darwinfest.

Pulitzer-Prize winner and Arizona State University professor Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson's newest collaborative publication "The Superorganism: the beauty, elegance and strangeness of insect ...

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The vast majority of insect species are solitary; only a relatively few orders of ants, bees and wasps are truly ""eusocial,"" living in colonies with only one or a few reproductive females (ensuring ...

ASU Foundation Professor Bert Hölldobler receives the Cothenius Medal for lifetime achievement from the president of the German National Academy of Sciences. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...

The German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina honored ASU Foundation Professor Bert Hölldobler and two others with Cothenius Medals as part of the opening ceremonies of the Leopoldina's annual ...

UNIVERSUM cameraman Wolfgang Thaler and Bert Hoelldobler, a leading authority on ants, bring us face-to-face with the mysterious world of these social insects.