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From page 159... ... WILSON AND CHARLES D MICHENER SOMETHING ABOUT ants, termites, and other social insects attracts generalists, scholars who begin with a deep interest in basic entomology, or else acquire it, and who restlessly probe far beyond into such fields as evolutionary theory, biogeography, the history of science, and philosophy while conducting otherwise ordinary research. Read the entire page →
From page 160... ... 160 . BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS raphy. Read the entire page →
From page 161... ... . Next Emerson made a trip to the New York Zoological Station at Kartabo, British Guiana, where, at the suggestion of William Beebe, he began stuclying termites, anc! Read the entire page →
From page 162... ... During the 1920's the Emersons had two chilciren: Helena, who became the wife of Eugene Wilkening, a professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin; and William ~elliffe Emerson, employed in the Department of Anatomy of the University of Chicago. In 1949, following a summer in which Alfred served as a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, Winifred diec! Read the entire page →
From page 163... ... Emerson's main contribution was to summarize knowledge of the social insects, demonstrating with numerous examples the diverse and often bizarre ways that features of social behavior adapt species to particular challenges in the environment. In general, Principles of Animal Ecology stimulated a great deal of rigorous research in ecology and helped set the stage for the surge in population and community ecology that occurred during the 1950's and 1960's. Read the entire page →
From page 164... ... His case seems exceptionally strong today, because termites have relatively complex, stereotyped behavior, anct as subsequent investigators have shown, these insects use nest structure to regulate the microclimate of the colony. It is fair to say that what Konrad Lorenz and other vertebrate ethologists clid for the use of behavior in bird systematics, Emerson helped to accomplish for the use of behavior in the systematics of termites and other social insects. Read the entire page →
From page 165... ... from Michigan State University in 1961, received after his service as a distinguished visiting professor in 1960, and the Eminent Ecologist Award for 1967 from the Ecological Society of America. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1962. Read the entire page →
From page 166... ... 23-29. 1925 The termites of Kartabo, Bartica District, British Guiana. Read the entire page →
From page 167... ... 64 pp. 1 929 Ecological relationships between termites and termitophiles in British Guiana. Read the entire page →
From page 168... ... Termitophile distribution and quantitative characters as indicators of physiological speciation in British Guiana termites (Isoptera) Read the entire page →
From page 169... ... 255 pp.) Populations of social insects. Read the entire page →
From page 170... ... 1947 The biological basis of social cooperation. Trans. Read the entire page →
From page 171... ... Principles of Animal Ecology. Philadelphia: W Read the entire page →
From page 172... ... Mon., 78:67-85. Social insects. Read the entire page →
From page 173... ... 1959 Social insects. In: Encyclopaedia Britannica, vol. Read the entire page →
From page 174... ... 174 BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS Huxley, Sir Julian Sorell. In: Encyclopaedia Britannica, vol. Read the entire page →
From page 175... ... ALFRED EDWARDS EMERSON 1964 175 Report of the representative to the centennial celebration of the National Academy of Sciences. Read the entire page →
From page 176... ... 176 BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS A revision of the fossil genus Ulmer~ella (Isoptera, Hodotermitidae, Hodotermitinae3. Read the entire page →
From page 177... ... ALFRED EDWARDS EMERSON 1976 177 Termite nests a study of the phylogeny of behavior (reprint of article originally published in 19381; Addendum: nomenclatural changes, pp. 132-33; Changes in the biological basis of termite ethology with more recent bibliography, p. Read the entire page →

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... WILSON AND CHARLES D MICHENER SOMETHING ABOUT ants, termites, and other social insects attracts generalists, scholars who begin with a deep interest in basic entomology, or else acquire it, and who restlessly probe far beyond into such fields as evolutionary theory, biogeography, the history of science, and philosophy while conducting otherwise ordinary research.