“The Termitodoxa, or Biology and Society”
Title | “The Termitodoxa, or Biology and Society” |
Year for Search | 1920 |
Authors | Wheeler, William Morton(1865-1937) |
Secondary Title | Scientific Monthly |
Volume / Edition | 10.2 |
Pagination | 113-24 |
Date Published | February 1920 |
Keywords | Male author, US author |
Annotation | While the purpose of the essay is the illumination of the way a termite colony functions, it is done so through a letter from “Wee-Wee 43rd Neotenic King of the 8429th Dynasty of the Bellicose Termites” who describes the eutopia that is the colony with some disparaging comments on human society. |
Additional Publishers | Rpt. in his Foibles of Insects and Men (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928), ; Essays in Philosophical Biology. Selected by Professor G. W. Parker (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1939), 71-88. |
Info Notes | Originally read at the Symposium of the American Society of Naturalists, Princeton Meeting, December 30, 1919. |
Holding Institutions | PSt |
Author Note | The author (1865-1937) was a well-known entomologist who taught at Harvard University for many years |
Full Text | 1920 Wheeler, William Morton (1865-1937). “The Termitodoxa, or Biology and Society.” Scientific Monthly 10.2 (February 1920): 113-24. Rpt. in his Foibles of Insects and Men (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928), ; Essays in Philosophical Biology. Selected by Professor G. W. Parker (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1939), 71-88. Originally read at the Symposium of the American Society of Naturalists, Princeton Meeting, December 30, 1919. PSt While the purpose of the essay is the illumination of the way a termite colony functions, it is done so through a letter from “Wee-Wee 43rd Neotenic King of the 8429th Dynasty of the Bellicose Termites” who describes the eutopia that is the colony with some disparaging comments on human society. The author was a well-known entomologist who taught at Harvard University for many years. |