Sex on Six Legs: Lessons on Life, Love, and Language from the Insect World

by Marlene Zuk

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Insects have inspired fear, fascination, and enlightenment for centuries. They are capable of incredibly complex behaviour, even with brains often the size of a poppy seed. How do they accomplish feats that look like human activity - personality, language, and 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 his colony, to that one breadcrumb that your nightly sweep missed? Can insects be taught new skills as easily as your new puppy?
  • ISBN13 9780151013739
  • Publish Date 2 August 2011 (first published 1 January 2011)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 20 December 2014
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 272
  • Language English