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Deborah Gordon, Ants at Work: How an Insect Society is Organized. New York: The Free Press (1999), x + 182 pp., $25.00 (cloth); New York: W. W. Norton & Co. (2000) $13.95 (paper).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2022

Rasmus G. Winther
Rasmus G. Winther*
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Indiana University
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 68 , Issue 2 , June 2001 , pp. 268 - 270
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Copyright © 2001 by the Philosophy of Science Association

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