Bibliograph

Sex on six legs, lessons on life, love, and language from the insect world, Marlene Zuk

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Sex on six legs, lessons on life, love, and language from the insect world, Marlene Zuk

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Sex on six legs

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Marlene Zuk

Sub title

lessons on life, love, and language from the insect world

Summary

Insects have inspired fear, fascination, and enlightenment for centuries. They are capable of incredibly complex behavior, even with brains often the size of a poppy seed. How do they accomplish feats that look like human activity-personality, language, childcare-with completely different pathways from our own? What is going on inside the mind of those ants that march like boot-camp graduates across your kitchen floor? How does the lead ant know exactly where to take her colony, to that one bread crumb that your nightly sweep missed? Can insects be taught new skills as easily as your new puppy? Sex on Six Legs is a startling and exciting book that provides answers to these questions and many more, examining not only the bedroom lives of creepy crawlies but also some of our own long-held assumptions about learning, the nature of personality, and what our own large brains might be for

Target audience

adult

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