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Published December 2022 | public
Journal Article

The bank most tangled [book review]

Abstract

As chance would have it, you are reading this at a time when about 3.7 billion years of biological evolution have passed. To gauge how far we've come in the great unfolding of our biosphere, I urge you to immerse yourself in The Guests of Ants — the new book by myrmecologists Bert Hölldobler and Christina Kwapich. For here, laid out in 559 pages, is evolution at its maximal contemporary expression — organismal phenotypes at their most exaggerated extremes; Darwin's 'bank' at its most tangled.

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August 22, 2023
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