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To: "'afarley@sas.upenn.edu'" afarley@sas.upenn.edu
From: Wilf Rigter Wilf.Rigter@powertech.bc.ca
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 09:57:29 -0700
Subject: [alt-beam] Re: ANts


Hello Alex,

I also highly recommend both of those books but be prepared to put on your
thinking caps.

enjoy

Wilf Rigter mailto:wilf.rigter@powertech.bc.ca
tel: (604)590-7493
fax: (604)590-3411

> -----Original Message-----
> From: afarley@sas.upenn.edu [SMTP:afarley@sas.upenn.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 1999 9:46 AM
> To: beam@corp.sgi.com
> Subject: ANts
>
> For information on ants (and associated organisms ie wasps) I
> would suggest looking at Edward O. Wilson (and Bert Holldobler's) book
> "Ants". It is the definitive source bar none. It won a Pulitzer prize,
> which is an incredible achievement for a pure science book (the only
> other science book that I have ever heard of winning a Pulitzer is
> Douglas Hofstadter's "Godel Escher Bach"). So Ants should have
> everything that you would ever want to know about ants and colonial
> insect behaviour.
> Alex Farley

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