1945-1988
Hardcover with dust jacket
Language: English
No.25 in The Scientific American Library
Condition: B
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"The whole fabric of honey bee society depends on communication - on an innate ability to send and recieve messages, to encode and decode information. Only by speaking the same language from the outset can a colony of as many as 60,000 short-lived individuals coordinate its efforts and avert chaos.”