社会昆虫中的种姓和生态 Caste and Ecology in the Social Insects

基本信息

Format：Paperback | 372 pages

Dimensions: 140 x 216 x 22.1mm | 454g

Publication date: 21 Jan 1979

Publisher：Princeton University Press

Imprint: Princeton University Press

ISBN: 9780691095530

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

内容简介

在这项具有开创性和深远意义的工作中，乔治·奥斯特和爱德华·威尔逊提供了第1个关于社会昆虫中种姓进化的全面发展的理论。此外，在研究自然选择对普遍提高昆虫工效的影响时，他们超越了以前研究人员对昆虫生理机制的关注，而把我们的注意力转向昆虫分工的规模和效率。奥斯特和威尔逊教授认识到，昆虫群体的效率是基于分工与许多同时发生的需求的复杂配合，包括那些由巢穴周围的资源和敌人的分布所强加的需求，他们能够构建一系列的数学模型来描述促进特定种姓系统的自然选择因素。社会性昆虫在社会生物学的课题中起着关键作用，因为它们的社会组织非常严格，可以与遗传进化相关。由于这一重要考虑，作者的工作不仅对昆虫学而且对一般的进化理论都有影响。

In this pathbreaking and far-reaching work George Oster and Edward Wilson provide the first fully developed theory of caste evolution among the social insects. Furthermore, in studying the effects of natural selection in generally increasing the insects' ergonomic efficiency, they go beyond the concentration of previous researchers on the physiological mechanisms of the insects and turn our attention instead to the scale and efficiency of the insects' division of labor. Recognizing that the efficiency of the insect colony is based on a complex fitting of the division of labor to many simultaneous needs, including those imposed by the distribution of resources and enemies around the nest, Professors Oster and Wilson are able to construct a series of mathematical models to characterize the agents of natural selection that promote particular caste systems. The social insects play a key role in the subject of sociobiology because their social organization is so rigid and can be related to genetic evolution. Because of this important consideration, the authors' work has consequences not only for entomology but also for general evolutionary theory.

作者简介

乔治·弗雷德里克·奥斯特（1940年4月20日-2018年4月15日）是美国数学生物学家，加州大学伯克利分校的细胞和发育生物学教授。

George Frederick Oster (April 20, 1940 – April 15, 2018) was an American mathematical biologist, and Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology at University of California, Berkeley.