6:30 p.m.
Arizona State University and the School of Life Sciences host Pulitzer Prize winning authors and scientists Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson for an evening at the Desert Botanical Garden that reveals the beauty, elegance and strangeness of insect societies.
Social insects play a dominant role in terrestrial ecology, and their astounding evolutionary success is based on their remarkable systems of division of labor involving hundreds and thousands of individual organisms.
What makes these insects tick? That question has held ASU's Bert Hölldobler and Harvard University Professor Emeritus and conservationist E. O. Wilson entranced for nearly a half a century.
“One of the frontiers in biology is the exploration of these insects’ remarkable behaviors, and tracking down what makes so many individuals work in synchrony, as a single, highly integrated superorganism,” says Arizona State University Professor Bert Hölldobler.
Listen in as these scientific luminaries and ant enthusiasts talk and answer questions about their shared adventures and their newest release, “Superorganism,” with a book signing to follow.
This event is free and open to the public. Seats are limited. To reserve your tickets, contact: margaret.coulombe@asu.edu; 480-727-8934.
To reserve your first edition copy of “Superorganism” (and save 20%), contact Scott at the ASU Bookstore (480-965-4165). Books will be distributed and signed on the night of the event.
This book launch is one of a series of events for ASU’s Darwinfest: a celebration of how bold ideas can change worlds. For more information: http://darwinfest.asu.edu
