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Bert Hölldobler

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Gender Male
Age 87
Date of birth June 25,1936
Zodiac sign Cancer
Born Andechs
Germany
ResidenceGermany
Known for Ant
Job Professor
Author
Biologist
Books Journey to the Ants
Ameisen. Die Entdeckung einer faszinierenden Welt
Herbivory of Leaf-Cutting Ants: A Case Study on Atta Colombica in the Tropical Rainforest of Panama
The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies
The Leafcutter Ants: Civilization by Instinct
On the Metapleural Gland of Ants
Tergal and Sternal Glands in Ants
Emphasis Type
The Ants
Awards Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science
Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada
Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
Current partner Turid Forsyth
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Berthold Karl Hölldobler is a German sociobiologist and evolutionary biologist who studies evolution and social organization in ants. He is the author of several books, including The Ants, for which he and his co-author, E. O. Wilson received the Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction writing in 1991.

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