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Author(s):	Lisa Margonelli

Date:	2021	Format:	epub	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	0374282072
Pages:	320	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
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The award-winning journalist Lisa Margonelli, national bestselling author of Oil on the Brain: Petroleums Long, Strange Trip to Your Tank, investigates the environmental and economic impact termites inflict on human societies in this fascinating examination of one of natures most misunderstood insects.

Are we more like termites than we ever imagined? In , the award-winning journalist Lisa Margonelli introduces us to the enigmatic creatures that collectively outweigh human beings ten to one and consume $40 billion worth of valuable stuff annuallyand yet, in Margonellis telling, seem weirdly familiar. Over the course of a decade-long obsession with the little bugs, Margonelli pokes around termite mounds and high-tech research facilities, closely watching biologists, roboticists, and geneticists. Her globe-trotting journey veers into uncharted territory, from evolutionary theory to Edwardian science literature to the military industrial complex. What begins as a natural history of the termite becomes a personal exploration of the unnatural future were building, with darker observations on power, technology, historical trauma, and the limits of human cognition.

Whether in Namibia or Cambridge, Arizona or Australia, Margonelli turns up astounding facts and raises provocative questions. Is a termite an individual or a unit of a superorganism? Can we harness the termites properties to change the world? If we build termite-like swarming robots, will they inevitably destroy us? Is it possible to think without having a mind? burrows into these questions and many othersunearthing disquieting answers about the worlds most underrated insect and what it means to be human.
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