Ants at Work: How an Insect Society is Organized

Abandoned. While the title promises a great deal, the book does not deliver. It's much less about ants than it is about the researchers studying ants, and the very quaint methods they used to study ants. What took them 20+ years of hard summers in the field, wandering around with magnifying lenses following ants around the desert is the sort of thing we could automate today with a couple of cellphones and a little bit of software in a month. Being a grad student sucks in the 2020s, but it seems like it must have been much worse in the 90s.