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The Leafcutter Ants
Web edition: December 30, 2010
Print edition: January 15, 2011; Vol.179 #2 (p. 30)
Two Pulitzer Prize–winning biologists team up to describe ants that farm their own food and form colonies that can be considered advanced civilizations.
W.W. Norton, 2010, 160 p., $19.95.
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