‘The ants were duly visited’: making sense of John Lubbock, scientific naturalism and the senses of social insects

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“…Much that become 15 Clark (1997), Barton (1998), Patton (2007) and Richard, (2012). 16 Kehoe (1998).…”

History of Ecological Sciences, Part 45: Ecological Aspects of Entomology During the 1800s

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