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Robert E. Page Jr.
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How can 40, 000 bees working in the dark, by instinct alone, construct a honey comb? Synthesizing decades of experiments, The Spirit of the Hive presents the genetic and physiological mechanisms underlying the division of labor in honey bee colonies and explains how it is an inevitable product of group living, evolving over millions of years.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● ISBN 9780674075542 ● Publisher Harvard University Press ● Published 2013 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2683749 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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